Australian ladies’s cricket vice-captain Ash Gardner has spoken out about swirling rumours of an affair along with her youthful teammate Georgia Voll following a number of weeks of silence.
Her ex-wife Monica Wright, 30, lately referred to as out Cricket Australia‘s inaction over the potential battle of curiosity arising from Gardner’s involvement in choice and decision-making for the staff.
Cricket Australia CEO Todd Greenberg spoke in regards to the scenario on SEN radio on Thursday, saying he’ll herald ‘extra guardrails’ for private relationships amongst staff members and employees.
This was adopted by Gardner taking to Instagram to problem an announcement on Thursday night.
‘Whereas my separation from my spouse is a private matter, I perceive my present relationship standing wanted to be addressed by Cricket Australia given my place as vice-captain,’ Gardner wrote.
‘I’m grateful that the CA Board has chosen to help my continued management. I stay up for enjoying a robust function as a frontrunner and offering the absolute best help for my teammates within the season to come back.
‘I’m grateful for the time Monica and I shared and sorry for the ache this has triggered. I want her nothing however happiness and success sooner or later.
‘I will not be making any additional public touch upon this matter right now and ask that the privateness of these concerned is revered.’
Ash Gardner (left) who was appointed Australian co-vice captain on January 28 alongside Tahlia McGrath, married her long-term girlfriend Monica Wright (proper) in April 2025
Greenberg mentioned CA oversees any staff selections and relationships had been a private matter, however that he was conscious there could possibly be a ‘notion’ of a battle of curiosity.
‘In conditions the place there are some private relationships (we are going to) make certain there are some extra guard rails so the notion of battle (of curiosity) and I’m speaking about issues like choice are dealt with appropriately.’
Gardner serves as vice-captain of Australia’s ladies’s staff and captains the Sydney Sixers within the Ladies’s Huge Bash League.
Her ex-wife alleged Gardner had an affair with fellow Australian participant Georgia Voll, 22, in the course of the ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup in India final 12 months not lengthy after the pair bought married.
Wright questioned why Gardner had been permitted to retain senior management positions after Cricket Australia grew to become conscious of the scenario.
‘I feel in the event you’re privileged sufficient to signify your nation and be seen as a task mannequin, there is a accountability to carry your self to a excessive ethical customary,’ Wright instructed The Daily Telegraph.
‘What I am unable to perceive is why Cricket Australia hasn’t mentioned something publicly.
‘Does their silence imply they help the actions of Ashleigh and Georgia?
Gardner serves as vice-captain of Australia’s ladies’s staff and captains the Sydney Sixers within the Ladies’s Huge Bash League
‘Captains are anticipated to set the usual, and that form of conduct falls properly wanting it.’
Wright additionally claimed the controversy would have been handled extra critically had it concerned members of the Australian males’s staff.
She pointed to the therapy of late cricket legend Shane Warne, who was eliminated as Australia’s males’s vice-captain in 2000 following experiences that he had despatched express messages to a British nurse.
Gardner, who was appointed co-vice-captain on January 28 alongside Tahlia McGrath, married her long-term girlfriend Wright in April 2025.
Nonetheless, simply months later, issues began to collapse whereas the staff was in India for the ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup.
A staff supply with data of the scenario says there was some awkwardness throughout that tour when Wright flew over to India to see her spouse.
‘It was a bit of bit bizarre,‘ the insider mentioned.
‘It was like one thing was a bit of bit off with Ash, however we thought it was due to the strain of the World Cup.’
Wright referred to as for her to lose her management roles following allegations she had an affair with a youthful teammate (pictured collectively in April 2025)
The insider mentioned it was ‘simply horrible’ when Wright arrived in India and Gardner did not seem to be herself.
Each day Mail understands that Gardner and Wright had a heart-to-heart after they returned to their Northern Seashores dwelling in Sydney following the World Cup.
‘After they bought dwelling, [Gardner] goes, ‘Hey, look, can we speak?’ and she or he sat her down,’ the supply claimed.
Gardner allegedly disclosed to Wright why issues had been ‘off’ throughout her go to to India, leaving Wright ‘shattered’ and ‘distraught’.
The dialog successfully marked the top of the couple’s marriage.
