- Ashleigh Gardner married her companion, Monica
- Couple have been engaged since April final 12 months
Australian Indigenous all-rounder Ashleigh Gardner has tied the knot with long-term companion Monica Wright in a surprising ceremony over the weekend.
Gardner, 27, who turned engaged to Wright in April final 12 months, took to social media on Sunday to put up a single picture from the marriage alongside the caption: ‘Mrs & Mrs Gardner’.
The ceremony was attended by a few of Gardner’s cricketing pals, together with Ellyse Perry, Kim Garth, Elyse Villani and Alyssa Healy.
The marriage comes at a time when the cricket star has been making large waves in her professional profession, having been lately appointed skipper of the Gujarat Giants within the Ladies’s Premier League.
Gardner additionally made headlines in 2023 when she referred to as out Cricket Australia for scheduling a match on Australia Day.
She posted an announcement on social media declaring it was a ‘day of damage and a day of mourning’ for Indigenous Australians and stated she’d relatively not be enjoying.
Ashleigh Gardner and long-term companion Monica Wright had been engaged in 2024
Gardner was scathing of the choice to schedule considered one of Australia’s fixtures towards Pakistan on January 26 – the day the First Fleet arrived in Sydney in 1788.
‘Reflecting on what January 26 means to me and my folks, it’s a day of damage and mourning,’ she posted on social media.
‘My tradition is one thing I maintain near my coronary heart […] and I am all the time so proud to talk about each time requested.
‘Sadly this 12 months the Australian ladies’s cricket group has been scheduled to play a sport on the twenty sixth of January, which actually does not sit effectively with me as a person, but additionally all of the folks I am representing,’ she wrote on social media.
‘As a nationwide group we’ve a platform to lift consciousness about sure points and I am utilizing this platform to hopefully educate others on a journey to study in regards to the longest residing tradition on the planet.
‘Once I take the sphere for this sport, I’ll actually be reflecting and fascinated about all my ancestors and peoples lives who modified from this present day,’ wrote Gardner.
Gardner later mirrored on her stance and the backlash she copped for it,
‘I knew when posting that assertion that there was going to be backlash,’ she stated.
The Aussie star (pictured with Wright), a proud Muruwari girl, spoke out towards cricket bosses scheduling a match on Australia Day in 2023
Gardner took to Twitter to precise her disappointment and made headlines within the course of
‘I believe I underestimated how a lot I copped. I strive my finest not to have a look at all that stuff, however I really feel prefer it’s solely human nature to learn feedback and issues like that.
However she did not again down.
‘However I suppose it was a second the place I caught to my weapons and I put that assertion on the market as a result of that is what I believed in,’ she stated.
‘I simply needed to keep true to what I stated, and I suppose I’ve simply tried to flip that and switch it right into a optimistic and it is sparked conversations.’
Gardner stated within the days after she did query that she was doing the appropriate factor in being as vocal as she was.
However the proficient athlete stated help from her teammates bolstered that she was higher to be robust about her beliefs for the betterment of the trigger.
‘So, I suppose making an attempt to take the boldness out of that and the help that I had from my teammates and help workers was big as a result of it was a few darkish days there the place I used to be like, ‘Why did I do this?’
‘So, I suppose making an attempt to take the boldness out of that and the help that I had from my teammates and help workers was big as a result of it was a few darkish days there the place I used to be like, “Why did I do this?”
‘However understanding that it was for a superb trigger after which simply making an attempt to take that confidence with that going into my cricket as effectively sticking to my weapons with how I play cricket, after which how I act off the sphere as effectively, making an attempt to maintain them fairly shut collectively.’
