Yas Rana and Lauren Winfield-Hill reflect on the start of the 2025 Women's Premier League, before Katya Witney does a deep dive into England's new pace bowling development programme.

She chats to Ryana MacDonald-Gay, who played two Tests for England over the winter, and Chris Liddle, the coach in charge of the pace programme.

0:00 Intro / 1:26 Lauren Winfield-Hill on the WPL / 16:46 Pace bowling development programme / 25:11 Ryana MacDonald-Gay interview / 40:25 Chris Liddle interview / 1:03:05 Outro

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