Indigenous cricket star Ashleigh Gardner has referred to as out the choice to schedule an Australian girls’s worldwide on January 26.
Australia’s girls’s cricket crew is taking part in Pakistan in a three-match T20 International collection, beginning on Tuesday.
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The second match in Hobart has been scheduled to happen on Thursday January 26, a choice that “doesn’t sit well” with Gardner, the reigning Belinda Clark medallist.
“As a proud Muruwari woman and reflecting on what Jan 26 means to me and my people it is a day of hurt and a day of mourning,” she wrote on Twitter.
“My culture is something I hold close to my heart and something I’m always so proud to speak about whenever asked.
“I also am fortunate enough to play cricket for a living which is something I dreamt of as a kid.
“Unfortunately this year the Australian women’s cricket team has been scheduled to play a game on the 26th of Jan which certainly doesn’t sit well with me as an individual but also all the people I’m representing.”
Gardner mentioned she’s going to take the sector and play on January 26, which the all-rounder described as a “day of mourning” that marked the “beginning of genocide, massacres and dispossession”.
“As a national team we have a platform to raise awareness about certain issues and I’m using this platform to hopefully help educate others on a journey to learn about the longest living culture in the world,” Gardner mentioned.
“For those who don’t have a good understanding of what that day means it was the beginning of genocide, massacres and dispossession.
“When I take the field for this game I will certainly be reflecting and thinking about all of my ancestors and peoples lives who changed from this day.”
Cricket Australia has not scheduled any Big Bash League video games on January 26 this 12 months and received’t consult with the day as Australia Day in any advertising or publicity of the ladies’s T20 recreation in Hobart on Thursday.
Australia wrapped up a 3-0 clear sweep of the ODI collection towards Pakistan on Saturday, as Beth Mooney scored her third ODI century with a career-best 133.
