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Cricketer Gardner lashes Jan 26 game

Ashleigh Gardner has criticised the decision to play a women's T20 international on January 26. (Aaron Gillions/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

National team star and Muruwari woman Ashleigh Gardner has criticised Cricket Australia's decision to schedule a T20 match against Pakistan for January 26.

The second Indigenous woman to play Test cricket for Australia, Gardner said the day the first fleet arrived in Australia in 1788 was a "day of hurt and a day of mourning" for Indigenous Australians and that playing a fixture on that date did not sit well with her.

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