Ashleigh Katherine Gardner is an Australian international cricketer who plays as an all-rounder.
She is a regular for Australia and plays for New South Wales Breakers in the Women’s National Cricket League and Sydney Sixers in the Women’s Big Bash League
She was quite disconnected to her family having been brought up in a foster care home. Gardner, on the other hand, is undeniably proud of her background.
She has her tribal name tattooed on her arm to remind her of her culture. Asian-fusion food are her to-go meals.
She captained Australia’s Indigenous team in India when then was 18 years old. She led the same squad on a historic tour of England two years later.
Gardner and her Australia teammates won the T20 World Cup in front of 86,174 people at Melbourne Cricket Ground.
Due to coronavirus, she took up aboriginal painting as a new interest. The lockdown, however blocked plans of her visiting her tribe’s homelands.
Ashleigh Gardner parents: Meet Jim and Katherine Gardner
Jim and Katherine Gardener are the parents of Ashleigh.
Her mother’s roots come from the Muruwari people(a tribe from rural New South Wales).
Both parents are less talked about but the cricketer praises them always in her interviews.
Who are her siblings?
She had one sibling. He was her eldest brother
His identity however has not been documented.
Is Ashleigh Gardner indigenous?
She is however purely an indigenous Australian.
Gardner has never set foot on Muruwari country, where her mother’s ancestors had lived for thousands of years.
Aboriginal people are very spiritual especially with their smoking ceremony.
