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Test Match Special

Edwards: England's fitness issues have been put to bed

Test Match Special

BBC

News, Sports, Sports News, Cricket

4.42.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Mark Chapman, Alex Hartley, Raf Nicholson and Kirstie Gordon are joined by England Head Coach Charlotte Edwards to preview a big year for England's women.

Is the domestic game hampering the International team? How important could a home tournament be for the game? Have England's fitness issues been addressed? What's it like being part of The Hundred Auction?

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0:05.6

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0:09.4

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0:13.9

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0:37.1

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0:41.4

Huge year for the England women's side.

0:44.4

Home T20 World Cup, only two and a half months away.

0:49.0

A year on from the Ashes Whitewash will assess where everything is now,

0:52.8

what shape the team are in. Ahead of the summer head coach, Charlotte Edwards, will join us shortly to. Welcome winner Alex Hartley, journalist Ralph Nicholson, and Captain of the Blaise and Former England International Kirsty Gordon back at Scotland. Are with us. It is a big year, isn't it? Well, it's a long introduction for Kirsty Gordon that one, wasn't it?

1:12.0

Yeah, I know, yeah. Well, yours was very simple. To be honest, I'd take yours, Alex, really.

1:17.9

In all serious, it's a huge year for England women. There's been a lot of scrutiny over them over the last year or so.

1:24.7

Charlotte Edwards has almost had a year of grace, a year of almost betting into this role that she's got as England head coach, almost been able to have the year and just get on with her job. I think she's had a lot to change and a lot to do within the England environment, but a home world cup, things don't get bigger. That use of the phrase grace is quite interesting Because it's almost as if you're saying

1:45.7

Well, I've been raffing on this a moment

1:47.1

It's honestly saying right

1:47.9

Okay, now it gets serious

1:50.0

You don't get a year's grace but you don't

1:53.8

But I think Lottie was like in a win-win situation

1:58.0

You know the girls had come off the back of an Ashes series

2:00.7

Everybody was looking at her to make changes. And actually, you don't make those changes overnight. They do take time. You know, a lot of the skills on how you play spin or bowling at the death or whatever it may be, the fitness stuff, you can't change that overnight. Those things take a long time to change. Now they take camps, they take going

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