{"id":801469,"date":"2026-07-15T08:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/801469\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T08:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:37:15","slug":"ash-gardner-and-georgia-voll-everything-we-know-about-the-allegations-surrounding-the-australian-cricket-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/801469\/","title":{"rendered":"Ash Gardner and Georgia Voll: Everything we know about the allegations surrounding the Australian cricket stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Key pointsThe estranged wife of Australian vice captain Ashleigh Gardner posted on Instagram alleging Gardner had an affair with teammate Georgia Voll last year.The affair was alleged to have occurred at the ODI World Cup in India.Gardner, Voll and Cricket Australia have not addressed the allegation.Earlier this month, the Australian women\u2019s team won the T20 World Cup under the captaincy of new leader Sophie Molineux.<\/p>\n

Ten days ago, the Australian women\u2019s team paid public homage to Shane Warne.<\/a><\/p>\n

Captain Sophie Molineux struck a couple of Lord\u2019s balcony poses to celebrate their latest World Cup win, while evoking Warne\u2019s ebullient Ashes celebrations a little less than 30 years ago.<\/p>\n

\"HappierHappier days: Monica Wright (left) and estranged wife Ash Gardner, the Australian cricket star.Getty Images for Cricket Australia<\/p>\n

Now, vice captain Ash Gardner finds herself mimicking Warne in another fashion, seeing her marriage break-up, and an alleged affair with teammate Georgia Voll, splashed all over the tabloids.<\/p>\n

It was also an offshoot of Warne\u2019s old Fleet Street nemeses, Daily Mail Australia, that first reported the allegation. Gardner\u2019s ex-partner Monica Wright then posted the Mail story on social media, along with a picture of opening batter Voll, 22, and an allegation that the teammates had an affair. <\/p>\n

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Those posts have resulted in the emergence of more claims in the Mail, noting that the alleged affair took place during last year\u2019s ODI World Cup in India<\/a>, where the Australian side was eliminated in the semi-finals for the second consecutive tournament.<\/p>\n

Cricket Australia declined to comment. Gardner\u2019s management and Voll\u2019s management were both contacted for comment. Neither has confirmed the veracity of the allegations.<\/p>\n

Former captain Alyssa Healy<\/a>, currently in the UK to watch the British Open golf championship<\/a>, retired after that World Cup, clearly frustrated at her inability to marshal the team to greater success.<\/p>\n

Was the Gardner episode a factor in the team falling short? Gardner was Australia\u2019s leading run-maker at the tournament and third-best overall, though her off-spin was not as effective as usual. Voll had a back-up role in the team, playing twice.<\/p>\n

Two Cricket Australia sources, speaking anonymously because of the personal nature of the allegation, told this masthead most within the cricket system have been well aware of the allegation over the past six to eight months, meaning it was common knowledge in and around the team in January, when the decision was made to hand the captaincy to Sophie Molineux.<\/a><\/p>\n

While Gardner was also promoted to permanent vice captain, the choice of Molineux to succeed Healy was a surprise to some, given her spotty injury record.<\/p>\n

\"AustralianAustralian player Georgia Voll.Getty Images<\/p>\n

The sources emphatically deny that Gardner\u2019s relationship issues were a material factor in the choice of captain. Instead, it was pointed out that Molineux\u2019s people skills were central to the decision.<\/p>\n

In the presentations made to an interview panel, Molineux was best able to articulate how to take the team forward. In particular, her ability to read the team\u2019s mood and ensure she would be the leader to lift it out of any senses of negativity or overthinking was identified as a key strength.<\/p>\n

Those people skills are even more critical to the successful running of a cricket team when it is acknowledged that personal relationships within that team are not just prurient details for tabloids, but a reality of the women\u2019s game.<\/p>\n

Look around the world and there are multiple instances of this, including England captain Nat Sciver-Brunt\u2019s marriage to former seam bowler Katherine Brunt.<\/p>\n

\"AshAsh Gardner with the trophy at Lord\u2019s.AP Photo<\/p>\n

That\u2019s merely the most high-profile example. New Zealand\u2019s Amy Satterthwaite and Lea Tahuhu and South Africa\u2019s Dane van Niekerk and Marizanne Kapp are others from recent years.<\/p>\n

Gardner will, in time, need to speak publicly again, most likely while playing in the Hundred over the next month or so. Gardner is captain of the Trent Rockets based in Nottingham, while Voll will be playing for the Welsh Fire.<\/p>\n

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CA and selectors will pick the team and its leaders ahead of Australia\u2019s next assignment against Bangladesh at home in October.<\/p>\n

But it stands to reason that Gardner will learn plenty from the episode \u2013 as did Nathan Lyon when his break-up, and a new relationship with his now wife, made public waves in 2017.<\/p>\n

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