Zimbabwean newspaper’s attack on John Mooney ‘contemptuous’

Cricket Ireland has condemned the “contemptuous” mocking of World Cup star John Mooney in a Zimbabwean newspaper.

A shocking article in The Zimbabwe Herald called Mooney a “recovering alcoholic”and accused him of a “shameless piece of fielding dishonesty” during Ireland’s five­run World Cup Pool B win over Zimbabwe in Hobart on Saturday.

Mooney, 33, left Ireland’s tour of the West Indies last year with what was described at the time as a “stress­related illness”.