{"id":818871,"date":"2026-07-23T14:31:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T14:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/818871\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T14:31:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T14:31:20","slug":"ashleigh-gardner-monica-wright-marriage-split-sydney-sixers-gm-rachael-haynes-on-support-for-star-captaincy-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/818871\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashleigh Gardner, Monica Wright marriage split: Sydney Sixers GM Rachael Haynes on support for star, captaincy role"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sydney Sixers<\/a> general manager Rachael Haynes has wrapped her arms around Ashleigh Gardner and given the star her blessing to continue as WBBL<\/a> captain.<\/p>\n

The all-rounder\u2019s personal life made headlines this month after her ex-wife Monica Wright alleged in explosive Instagram posts that Gardner had an affair with Georgia Voll, who plays with Gardner in Australia\u2019s Test and white-ball teams.<\/p>\n

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Ashleigh Gardner celebrates Australia\u2019s 2026 T20 World Cup victory.\u00a0AP<\/p>\n

Haynes spoke to media on Thursday after confirmation Matthew Mott and Peter Clarke would coach the Sixers\u2019 BBL<\/a> and WBBL squads respectively in the 2026-2027 summer, where she was asked if she\u2019d been in contact with Gardner.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to comment on her personal life or anything like that,\u201d Haynes said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, certainly, we\u2019ve exchanged messages. I\u2019ve checked in with her. She knows that we\u2019re here to support her.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s a well-respected player within our program, an important player for us, so I think the most important thing is her knowing that we\u2019re there for her, we care about her and look forward to continuing with the club ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked if Gardner would continue as captain, Haynes said that would \u201cabsolutely\u201d be the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach year we make a recommendation to our board around our leaders,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s certainly someone who did a fantastic job last year, and we\u2019ll certainly be making that recommendation to our board that she continues.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mott oversaw four triumphant World Cup campaigns in his time as Australia\u2019s women\u2019s coach.<\/p>\n

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Ashleigh Gardner (right) with her now ex-wife in 2025.\u00a0Getty Images for Cricket Australia<\/p>\n

He\u2019s stepped up as Sixers men\u2019s coach after the sacking of Greg Shipperd and the short-lived tenure of James Hopes, who quit to take control of the Queensland Bulls and Brisbane Heat only weeks after scoring the Sydney job. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think to have someone like Matthew Mott stepping into our men\u2019s head coach role, Pete Clarke who was announced earlier today [as WBBL coach], very excited with where we\u2019ve ended up,\u201d Haynes said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a little bit of a journey to get here, but I think we\u2019ve got two world-class coaches stepping in to lead our programs.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sixers will begin their 2026-27 WBBL campaign against the Heat at Hurstville Oval on October 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Sixers general manager Rachael Haynes has wrapped her arms around Ashleigh Gardner and given the star her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-818871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}