PUPILS at a Woolhampton school were treated to a cricketing master class when a former international cricketer joined their Sunday service.
Zimbabwean fast bowler Henry Olonga spoke to pupils and local parishioners at the Elstree School weekly service, before the cricket team enjoyed a session in the nets with him.
Mr Olonga was forced to flee Zimbabwe after famously wearing a black armband during the opening Cricket World Cup match in 2003 "to mourn the death of democracy" in his homeland.
A warrant was issued for his arrest for treason, which carries the death penalty in the African nation, and he has never returned.
"My convictions are the same today as they were back then, stronger today even perhaps," he said. "Nothing has changed in the country, if anything the country has gone backwards, so I would do it again without a heartbeat, I would stand up for what I stood up for then."
Mr Olonga, who was the first black player to represent his country when he made his Test debut against Pakistan in 1995, isn't just a talented sportsman, however, and has already had a number one single in Zimbabwe.
He has now just released his first album here and also finds time to work as an artist, picking up a talent he discovered at college.
Mr Olonga and his wife, Australian-born Tara Olonga, also work together making short films.
"I am so fulfilled now," he said. "My biggest interest is sharing my faith because I feel it is a message that has been lost. It gives us hope in a world that when we look around there is so much destruction, pain and suffering and perhaps my faith in God gives me hope.
"It gives me hope for Zimbabwe, it gives me hope for the world."

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