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Test Match Special

Lauren Filer & Freya Kemp can’t tell each other apart!

6/22/202624 min

Head INSIDE the England camp during the Women’s T20 World Cup with England stars Lauren Filer & Freya Kemp. Amber Sandhu sits down with them to discuss Kemp’s ability to hit the ball long, the 'coffee culture’ within the team, and why Filer was FIRED from her job at a supermarket.

WATCH in full on the BBC Sport YouTube channel or on iPlayer.

Clips

Fired After The Hundred
Heaving In Deep Cover
Grateful After Setbacks
Better At Cricket, So Bye

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Amber Sandhu· Host0:00

    [upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to Test Match Special at the Women's T20 World Cup. My name is Amber Sandhu, and we are going behind the scenes with England's women. I'm so pleased to say we're getting to know a little bit better the two players alongside me. Welcome Freya Kemp and Lauren Filer.

  2. Lauren Filer· Guest0:21

    Thank you very much.

  3. Amber Sandhu· Host0:22

    How are you both?

  4. Lauren Filer· Guest0:23

    Good. Yeah.

  5. Freya Kemp· Guest0:24

    Yeah, really good.

  6. Amber Sandhu· Host0:25

    It is lovely to see you. Um, now you know each other very well, so I feel like we should just get straight into it. [laughs] Um, I'd like you to describe each other- Oh. [laughs] ... with three words, straight in.

  7. Lauren Filer· Guest0:35

    Three words.

  8. Amber Sandhu· Host0:36

    The three words that come to mind for you- Okay ... Lauren, that you would use to describe Freya.

  9. Freya Kemp· Guest0:40

    Gosh.

  10. Lauren Filer· Guest0:41

    Caring, hardworking, over-thinker.

  11. Amber Sandhu· Host0:45

    Okay.

  12. Freya Kemp· Guest0:47

    I was about to say that about you. [laughs] [laughs] [laughs] I was gonna say caring, over-thinker- Yeah, yeah ... and, um, fast.

  13. Lauren Filer· Guest0:55

    Oh, thanks.

  14. Freya Kemp· Guest0:57

    That's a good- Yeah ... that's quite nice, isn't it?

  15. Lauren Filer· Guest0:59

    Yeah. That's good.

  16. Amber Sandhu· Host0:59

    Would you agree with the words- Yeah ... that you both used?

  17. Freya Kemp· Guest1:02

    Do you know, I literally just spoke to Gibbo, actually, and she was like, I said we're doing this to get with, with, with Filer, and she was like, "You're both so similar."

  18. Lauren Filer· Guest1:09

    [laughs] Yeah, we are.

  19. Freya Kemp· Guest1:10

    But actually, it's probably quite good.

  20. Lauren Filer· Guest1:12

    [laughs] Yeah, we are very similar. [laughs] But yeah, so yeah, that, I would ex- say that explains us both quite well.

  21. Amber Sandhu· Host1:17

    Would you say then you're pro- probably quite close in camp amongst the team as well?

  22. Lauren Filer· Guest1:21

    We've got, like, really similar friendship groups, don't we?

  23. Freya Kemp· Guest1:23

    Yeah.

  24. Lauren Filer· Guest1:24

    So we all, like, always sort of, like, near each other- Yeah ... in some capacity.

  25. Freya Kemp· Guest1:28

    [laughs] Mixing, yeah.

  26. Lauren Filer· Guest1:29

    Yeah.

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