{"id":853714,"date":"2026-08-13T11:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T11:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/853714\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T11:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T11:30:10","slug":"cricket-news-2026-ash-gardner-issues-apology-to-ex-wife-monica-amid-marriage-breakdown-retains-australian-vice-captaincy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/853714\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket news 2026 | Ash Gardner issues apology to ex-wife Monica amid marriage breakdown; retains Australian vice-captaincy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian <\/a>vice-captain Ash Gardner will have to step out of any conversations relating to the selection of Georgia Voll in the squad, despite being endorsed by Cricket Australia (CA) to keep her leadership role amid her marriage breakdown. <\/p>\n

Gardner broke her silence for the first time since allegations she had an affair with Voll were published by her ex-wife Monica<\/a> on social media.<\/p>\n

\"Ash<\/p>\n

Ash Gardner celebrates a half-century with Ellyse Perry.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n

CA held talks about Gardner\u2019s position as vice-captain after the claims were published. The all-rounder noted that conversation needed to happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile my separation from my wife is a personal matter, I understand my current relationship status needed to be addressed by Cricket Australia given my position as vice-captain,\u201d she said in a statement posted on Instagram. <\/p>\n

\u201cI am grateful that the CA board has chosen to support my continued leadership. <\/p>\n

\u201cI look forward to playing a strong role as a leader and providing the best possible support for my teammates in the season to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gardner said she was \u201csorry for the pain\u201d she had caused for Monica and added she hopes she has a life of \u201chappiness and success in the future\u201d. <\/p>\n

She added that she will not make any further comments publicly on the matter.<\/p>\n

Still, the conflict, either perceived or actual, had to be acknowledged by CA and its chief executive Todd Greenberg<\/a>, who has made sure all communications on the matter are handled transparently among the group and organisation. <\/p>\n

And even though Gardener is not a selector for the national team, her part in leadership meetings and consultations about final selections have been redefined. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t debated, but it was discussed yesterday at the board level,\u201d Greenberg said of the situation when speaking with The Age<\/a> on Thursday. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe board asked for an update on it, which we provided, and the outcome of that is the board are very supportive of Ash in the vice captaincy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a respect at work policy, which we\u2019ve now put some additional measures in place …\u201d<\/p>\n

Greenberg confirmed that includes Gardner having no influence over decisions of Voll in any team selections in future. <\/p>\n

\u201cEven if there\u2019s not a conflict, even if there\u2019s a perceived level of conflict, not just from the outside, but from other teammates or from staff,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in some difficult territory here because, like all sports, we\u2019re all learning a little bit about how these high-performance environments can operate.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to be making sure that our policies are keeping up with the realities, and I think that\u2019s exactly what we\u2019ve done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian vice-captain Ash Gardner will have to step out of any conversations relating to the selection of Georgia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-853714","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\/853714","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=853714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}