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'Brave' star's perfect response to public debate - CtrlF.XYZ

'Brave' star's perfect response to public debate

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Australian cricket prima Ashleigh Gardner fittingly took the archetypal wicket successful Australia's T20I against Pakistan astatine Blundstone Arena connected Thursday night.

Earlier successful the week, Gardner called retired Cricket Australia for scheduling a lucifer connected January 26.

A arrogant Muruwari woman, Gardner took to societal media connected Sunday to denounce the determination to play connected a day that commemorates "the opening of genocide, massacres and dispossession".

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Australia Day marks the accomplishment of the First Fleet astatine Sydney Cove successful 1788 and the opening of the European colonisation of Australia - due to the fact that of this, the time is not 1 of solemnisation for First Nations Australians but a "day of wounded and a time of mourning".

After speaking retired against the fixture, Gardner was astatine the centre of aggravated nationalist debate.

With the Aussies wearing their First Nations kit, Gardner fittingly took the archetypal wicket of the lucifer - cleanable bowling Javeria Khan for 4.

"Ash Gardner continues her fantastic signifier successful some formats, but peculiarly for Australia successful the greenish and gold, getting the wicket of Javeria Khan," Mel Jones said successful commentary for Fox Cricket.

"Well bowled determination by Ash Gardner," added Erin Burns.

The 2nd of Australia's three-game T20 bid against Pakistan was primitively scheduled to beryllium played astatine Canberra's Manuka Oval connected January 27, but the crippled was moved to Hobart erstwhile the South Africa men's cricket squad abandoned their January ODI series.

The determination to don the indigenous jersey was reportedly driven by the players successful a agreed showing of the team's enactment of the all-rounder.

Speaking to media connected Monday, Australian skipper Meg Lanning backed Gardner's "brave" prime to dependable her concerns.

Lanning said the squad had talked astir the schedule, and however they would attack playing connected January 26.

"We've had a batch of discussions arsenic a radical astir the game," Lanning said connected Monday.

"We're afloat supportive of Ash and her stance and her feelings and views astir it.

"It's thing that we can't power successful presumption of the scheduling and playing connected that day, but thing that we would similar to bash is conscionable admit the sadness and grief that time does bring for First Nations people.

"Secondly, we're going to effort and usage the accidental that we person to amended ourselves, to effort and make a amended knowing of what it means and their culture, and that's what we're utilizing this accidental to do.

"It's a truly agreed beforehand wrong the radical and arsenic I said, we truly enactment Ash and her feelings astir the day."

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