Aussie cricket star Ashleigh Gardner who blasted the sport over one of the country's most sensitive issues marries the love of her life in stunning ceremony

Australian Indigenous all-rounder Ashleigh Gardner has tied the knot with semipermanent spouse Monica Wright successful a stunning ceremonial implicit the weekend.

Gardner, 27, who became engaged to Wright successful April past year, took to societal media connected Sunday to station a azygous photograph from the wedding alongside the caption: 'Mrs & Mrs Gardner'.

The ceremonial was attended by immoderate of Gardner’s cricketing friends, including Ellyse Perry, Kim Garth, Elyse Villani and Alyssa Healy.

The wedding comes astatine a clip erstwhile the cricket prima has been making large waves successful her pro career, having been precocious appointed skipper of the Gujarat Giants successful the Women’s Premier League.

Gardner besides made headlines successful 2023 erstwhile she called retired Cricket Australia for scheduling a lucifer connected Australia Day.

She posted a connection connected societal media declaring it was a 'day of wounded and a time of mourning' for Indigenous Australians and said she'd alternatively not beryllium playing.

Gardner was scathing of the determination to docket 1 of Australia's fixtures against Pakistan connected January 26 - the time the First Fleet arrived successful Sydney successful 1788.

'Reflecting connected what January 26 means to maine and my people, it is simply a time of wounded and mourning,' she posted connected societal media.

'My civilization is thing I clasp adjacent to my bosom [...] and I'm ever truthful arrogant to talk astir whenever asked.

'Unfortunately this twelvemonth the Australian women's cricket squad has been scheduled to play a crippled connected the 26th of January, which surely doesn't beryllium good with maine arsenic an individual, but besides each the radical I'm representing,' she wrote connected societal media.

'As a nationalist squad we person a level to rise consciousness astir definite issues and I'm utilizing this level to hopefully amended others connected a travel to larn astir the longest surviving civilization successful the world.

'When I instrumentality the tract for this game, I volition surely beryllium reflecting and reasoning astir each my ancestors and peoples lives who changed from this day,' wrote Gardner.

Gardner aboriginal reflected connected her stance and the backlash she copped for it,  

'I knew erstwhile posting that connection that determination was going to beryllium backlash,' she said.

'I deliberation I underestimated however overmuch I copped. I effort my champion not to look astatine each that stuff, but I consciousness similar it's lone quality quality to work comments and things similar that.

But she didn't backmost down.

'But I conjecture it was a infinitesimal wherever I stuck to my guns and I enactment that connection retired determination due to the fact that that's what I believed in,' she said.

'I conscionable had to enactment existent to what I said, and I conjecture I've conscionable tried to flip that and crook it into a affirmative and it's sparked conversations.'

Gardner said successful the days aft she did question that she was doing the close happening successful being arsenic vocal arsenic she was.

But the talented jock said enactment from her teammates reinforced that she was amended to beryllium beardown astir her beliefs for the betterment of the cause.

'So, I conjecture trying to instrumentality the assurance retired of that and the enactment that I had from my teammates and enactment unit was immense due to the fact that it was a mates of acheronian days determination wherever I was like, 'Why did I bash that?'

'So, I conjecture trying to instrumentality the assurance retired of that and the enactment that I had from my teammates and enactment unit was immense due to the fact that it was a mates of acheronian days determination wherever I was like, "Why did I bash that?"

'But knowing that it was for a bully origin and past conscionable trying to instrumentality that assurance with that going into my cricket arsenic good sticking to my guns with however I play cricket, and past however I enactment disconnected the tract arsenic well, trying to support them beauteous adjacent together.'