The Vermeulen redemption

It's close to three years to the day when Mark Vermeulen, struggling to cope with anger, depression and frustration, torched the Zimbabwe academy and later faced the prospect of 25 years' imprisonment. A chance of a recall seemed unthinkable at the time, but the Zimbabwe opener says with confidence that he's a changed man. He talks Ian Chadband of the Telegraph through his extraordinary journey and recalls that fateful day.

"I'd been watching the TV and thought 'I've had enough of this'," Vermmeulen recalls. "I went off in my brother's Chevrolet, which had a South African number plate, and set fire to the building's thatched roof with a lighter. I watched it catch hold and then I drove away."