The vice-captain of Australia’s girls’s cricket workforce, Ashleigh Gardner, has break up from her spouse in what the Each day Mail understands is acrimonious circumstances.
The wedding breakdown is alleged to be the discuss of the close-knit Southern Stars squad, a lot of whom are abroad after defeating England within the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup ultimate at Lord’s on July 5.
Gardner, 29, who was appointed co-vice captain on January 28 alongside Tahlia McGrath, married her long-term girlfriend Monica Wright in April 2025.
Nevertheless, simply months later, issues began to crumble whereas the workforce was in India for the ICC Girls’s Cricket World Cup.
A workforce supply with information of the state of affairs says there was some awkwardness throughout that tour when Monica flew over to India to see her spouse.
‘It was somewhat bit bizarre,‘ the insider mentioned.
The vice-captain of Australia’s girls’s cricket workforce, Ashleigh Gardner, has separated from her spouse in what the Each day Mail understands is acrimonious circumstances
‘It was like one thing was somewhat bit off with Ash, however we thought it was due to the stress of the World Cup.’
The insider mentioned it was ‘simply horrible’ when Wright arrived in India and Gardner did not look like herself.
The 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.
‘Once they received dwelling, [Gardner] goes, “Hey, look, can we discuss?” and he or she 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 tip of the couple’s marriage.
The break up was particularly devastating for Wright as a result of, based on the supply, the couple had been discussing plans to start out a household.
‘They had been about to go to the fertility clinic. That they had a reserving that Monica needed to cancel,’ mentioned the spy.
Gardner, 29, who was appointed co-vice-captain on January 28, tied the knot with girlfriend Monica Wright (left) in April 2025
Gardner is known to have moved out of the house the couple shared collectively in November, with Wright nonetheless dwelling of their home.
‘Ash left sooner or later. Monica got here dwelling and every little thing of Ash’s was gone, apart from the rings,’ mentioned the supply.
‘She left the marriage rings within the cabinet. Simply the field of marriage ceremony rings, and that was it.’
The Each day Mail understands that Gardner’s marriage breakdown despatched shockwaves by way of the Southern Stars as a result of Monica had been ‘across the workforce for 5 years’ and ‘knew all of them’, based on the supply.
‘A few of them are actually good mates, and Monica has an excellent relationship with quite a lot of [players] nonetheless. Lots of them are fairly upset,’ added the insider.
‘She had messages from practically all the ladies telling her how upset they had been about it.’
The game’s governing physique is outwardly conscious of the wedding breakdown.
Our supply claimed a disclosure was made to Cricket Australia’s Nationwide Choice Panel (NSP) when Gardner was appointed captain of the Girls’s BBL workforce Sydney Sixes in November, shortly after her break up from Wright.
She was later made co-vice-captain of the nationwide workforce in the beginning of the yr.
The Each day Mail contacted Cricket Australia, searching for remark and clarification.
Gardner, the Girls’s ODI Participant of the Yr, poses through the 2025 Cricket Australia Awards
Ashleigh Gardner and long-term accomplice Monica Wright had been engaged in 2024
Richard Hinds, the revered former Fairfax sportswriter who now serves as Cricket Australia’s senior communications chief, merely mentioned: ‘Yeah, no touch upon that.’
Gardner was additionally contacted for remark.
Whereas the captaincy conferences had been taking place, the insider says that Gardner had tried to easy issues over with Wright.
Nevertheless, it’s understood the connection couldn’t be salvaged.
Gardner and Wright met on a courting app in 2020, with the couple later proposing to 1 one other in April 2024.
They tied the knot in a country ceremony within the Blue Mountains in April 2025.
