WPL | Twitter in awe as Bell and Satghare dismante star-studded DC top-order with new ball exhibition

Gantavya Adukia

ByGantavya Adukia,SportsCafe Editor

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Cricket is almost an entirely different sport across its three formats, yet one thing remains the same -- the new ball in the right hands and right conditions is as lethal as an be. Lauren Bell and Sayali Satghare proved the point in Navi Mumbai on Saturday by reducing Delhi Capitals to 10/4.

Lauren Bell was ecstatic after bagging two wickets in her first for RCB's encounter against DC in the WPL in Navi Mumbai on Saturday

Royal Challengers Bengaluru's dreamy run with the new ball in the Women's Premier League 2026 continued against Delhi Capitals at the DY Patil Stadium on Saturday as the team sought a fourth win on the trot to start the season. Lauren Bell, having already bagged five wickets in three games at an incredulous economy of 3.75, joined forces with Sayali Satghareto wreak havoc on a slightly green Navi Mumbai deck.

Bell was unsurprisingly handed the brand new Kookaburra by skipper Sriti Mandhana but got off to a disappointing start when a bumper to Lizelle Lee first up was dispatched for a boundary. However, it was all part of the set up for the Englishwoman as she followed it up with a yorker around the legs that took the South African batter by surprise, before swinging late to crash into the stumps and send Lee packing. In walked compatriot Laura Wolvdaart, only to last all of two balls as Bell pitched a ball on length that nipped in sharply to beat the youngster all-hands up and claim the middle stump. Like Bell, Satghare began with an inventive Jemimah Rodrigues scooping her for four. However, the right-arm seamer delivered a stunning riposte in the form of a length ball wide of the creaes that engled into Jemimah, and seamed further along the trajeectory to clip the captain's inside edge and crash into the stumps. The highly experienced Marizanne Kapp was next, and was greeted with an unplayable jaffa as another length ball pitched on offstump and striaghtened just enough to beat the outside edge before sounding her the death rattle.

The women in red and black were ecstatic, as was Twitterati at the level of bowling on display. 

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