Australian girls’s cricket vice-captain Ash Gardner has spoken out about swirling rumours of an affair together with her youthful teammate Georgia Voll following a number of weeks of silence.
Her ex-wife Monica Wright, 30, just 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 workforce.
Cricket Australia CEO Todd Greenberg spoke concerning the scenario on SEN radio on Thursday, saying he’ll usher in ‘further guardrails’ for private relationships amongst workforce members and employees.
This was adopted by Gardner taking to Instagram to difficulty a press release 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 assist my continued management. I sit up for enjoying a powerful position as a pacesetter and offering the very best assist for my teammates within the season to return.
‘I’m grateful for the time Monica and I shared and sorry for the ache this has precipitated. I want her nothing however happiness and success sooner or later.
‘I will not be making any additional public touch upon this matter at the moment 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 stated CA oversees any workforce selections and relationships had been a private matter, however that he was conscious there might be a ‘notion’ of a battle of curiosity.
‘In conditions the place there are some private relationships (we are going to) ensure there are some further 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 girls’s workforce and captains the Sydney Sixers within the Girls’s Large Bash League.
Her ex-wife alleged Gardner had an affair with fellow Australian participant Georgia Voll, 22, through the ICC Girls’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 believe for those who’re privileged sufficient to signify your nation and be seen as a task mannequin, there is a duty to carry your self to a excessive ethical normal,’ Wright informed The Daily Telegraph.
‘What I can not perceive is why Cricket Australia hasn’t stated something publicly.
‘Does their silence imply they assist the actions of Ashleigh and Georgia?
Gardner serves as vice-captain of Australia’s girls’s workforce and captains the Sydney Sixers within the Girls’s Large Bash League
‘Captains are anticipated to set the usual, and that sort of conduct falls nicely wanting it.’
Wright additionally claimed the controversy would have been handled extra critically had it concerned members of the Australian males’s workforce.
She pointed to the therapy of late cricket legend Shane Warne, who was eliminated as Australia’s males’s vice-captain in 2000 following reviews 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.
Nevertheless, simply months later, issues began to collapse whereas the workforce was in India for the ICC Girls’s Cricket World Cup.
A workforce supply with information of the scenario says there was some awkwardness throughout that tour when Wright flew over to India to see her spouse.
‘It was a little bit bit bizarre,‘ the insider stated.
‘It was like one thing was a little bit 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 stated it was ‘simply horrible’ when Wright arrived in India and Gardner did not appear to be herself.
Every day Mail understands that Gardner and Wright had a heart-to-heart after they returned to their Northern Seashores house in Sydney following the World Cup.
‘Once they bought house, [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.
