READ MORE:<\/strong> Djokovic sets a date with 'quickest' de Minaur<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n READ MORE: \ufeff<\/strong>Stosur's teary farewell to professional tennis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n It marks the 1788 invasion of Australia by British fleets, and the subsequent genocide of Aboriginal people.<\/p>\n \ufeffGardner, who is a proud indigenous Australian, will line up at Blundstone Arena on Thursday to take on Pakistan in a Twenty20.<\/p>\n But she took to social media on Sunday to denounce the decision to play a game on a date that should be commemorated, not celebrated.<\/p>\n "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," Gardner said.<\/p>\n "My culture is something I hold close to my heart and something I'm always so proud to speak about whenever asked.<\/p>\n "I also am fortunate enough to play cricket for a living which is something I dreamt of as a kid.<\/p>\n "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.<\/p>\n "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.<\/p>\n "For those who don't have a good understanding of what that day means it was the beginning of genocide, massacres and dispossession.<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/akgardner97\/status\/1616941133770424321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n "When I take the field for this game I will certainly be reflecting and thinking about all of my ancestors and people's lives who changed from this day."<\/p>\n Cricket Australia has chosen to not schedule at Big Bash League matches on January 26.<\/p>\n The Australia-Pakistan match in Hobart is not being marketed in relation to Australia Day.\ufeff<\/p>\n For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> clicking here<\/strong><\/em><\/a>!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aussie star Ashleigh Gardner has called out Cricket Australia for scheduling an international fixture on January 26. \ufeffThe date has officially been labelled Australia Day […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265100,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265098\/revisions\/265100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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