Former Test cricketer Mark
Vermeulen is being questioned over a suspected arson attack on
Zimbabwe’s national cricket academy in Harare, BBC Sport
reported on Thursday.
The academy was badly damaged in the fire and Vermeulen has
been taken in for questioning, news agencies Reuters and AFP are
reporting.
"He’s been detained since yesterday on charges of arson,"
Vermeulen’s father Roland told AFP.
The cricket team lost its training kit and office equipment
was destroyed.
The fire came a day after a fire broke out in the Zimbabwe
Cricket boardroom at the main cricket arena, the Harare Sports
Club. Batsman Vermeulen, 27, has played eight Tests for
Zimbabwe, the last in 2004.
This summer, he had been playing club cricket for Werneth in
the Lancashire League but was banned for three years, two of
them suspended, for throwing a cricket ball at a spectator.
