Lord’s women’s Test match preview! England take on India in historic first, 100 years in the making

Katya sits down with the Guardian's Raf Nicholson to preview the historic first-ever women's Test match at Lord's against India.

0:00 Intro
0:58 Metro Bank
1:18 Scheduling of Lord's Test
7:56 England's Test form & squad
17:30 What XI will England pick?
29:07 How are India shaping up?
33:10 Relationship between domestic red-ball competitions and Test cricket
37:55 Mithali Raj on women's Test cricket
48:18 Relationship with Lord's/MCC
1:00:49 Declining volume of women's Test cricket
1:05:35 What can the ICC do to push for more women's Test cricket
1:10:25 Metro Bank Outro

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