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Ashleigh Gardner’s ex-wife demands she be stripped of vice-captaincy
Monica Wright, the estranged wife of Australia women's cricket vice-captain Ashleigh Gardner, has publicly criticised Cricket Australia for not addressing Gardner's alleged affair with teammate Georgia Voll. Wright told Code Sports that…
The Story in Brief
Monica Wright, the estranged wife of Australia women's cricket vice-captain Ashleigh Gardner, has publicly criticised Cricket Australia for not addressing Gardner's alleged affair with teammate Georgia Voll. Wright told Code Sports that Gardner should lose the vice-captaincy because the relationship, involving a junior teammate, represents a power imbalance and falls short of the standards expected of captains.
Cricket Australia responded by describing the matter as private and confirming that relationships within the workforce comply with its Respect at Work policy, with conflict-of-interest measures in place. The couple married in April 2025, and the relationship broke down after Gardner's participation in the Women's ODI World Cup in India.
The Indian Opinion
This story risks turning a personal dispute into a public moral trial. Many will condemn Cricket Australia's silence as a cover-up, while others will argue that an unproven allegation alone should not end a career. Either side misses the point: the board has a policy to manage conflicts of interest, not to police private lives. The real question is whether that policy has been triggered and what it found, not what Wright demands on social media.
Sources (2): sports.ndtv.com, timesnownews.com
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Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources.
