**Ex-Test star faces arson charges **
**Former Test cricketer Mark Vermeulen has been charged with arson in connection with a fire at Zimbabwe’s national cricket academy. **
The academy was badly damaged in the fire and Vermeulen will appear before court on Friday.
Vermeulen was being held in custody ahead of the court appearance.
The cricket team lost its training kit and office equipment was destroyed in the fire in the two-storey thatched building in Harare.
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 been banned for three years, two of them suspended, for throwing a cricket ball at a spectator.
Officials said Vermeulan had recently been under medical care for head injuries received in a car accident.
Source: BBC SPORT | Cricket | International Teams | Zimbabwe | Further delay for Vermeulen trial