Key Highlights
- So far in this year’s Women’s Premier League, it is to Lauren Bell’s credit that she has shown the new ball to be a boon rather than a bane.
- The tall England pacer has done so by finding an immaculate length and giving the ball a chance to swing.
- It has provided stupendous results, with Bell’s eight wickets in four games at a miserly economy of 5.31 in her maiden WPL campaign contributing greatly to Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s perfect streak of four wins in four matches.
- In a format where dot balls are like gold dust for the bowling unit, the 25-year-old hasn’t allowed a run to be scored off 59 of the 96 deliveries she has bowled.
- The tone was set in this WPL’s very first encounter, between RCB and Mumbai Indians on January 9, when Bell kicked off proceedings with a maiden over to Amelia Kerr.
