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You're listening to the TMS podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live.

Well hello and welcome to a special TMS podcast looking back at the

2023 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in South Africa. It was a tournament that was won seemingly inevitably by Australia

their sixth title and they head into the 2024 edition looking to make it seven Australia the dominant side they beat

the host South Africa in the final but it was a competition with plenty of

thrills and spills along the way. You're listening to the TMS Podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live.

Alongside me to chat through it all is Australian journalist and commentator Jeff Lemon who has seen more of these

World Cups over the years than most and also a member of England's squad from

that tournament, Lauren Winfield Hill, a World Cup winner as well in 2017.

So first of all, Lauren, if we look at the tournament in the round, 2023 is ICC Women's

T20 World Cup in South Africa. It was a fine

competition played in a beautiful country. God it is it's a really beautiful part

of the world isn't it South Africa. It was an awesome competition as well I think the way in which

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