 Despite having bowled regularly whilst playing age-group cricket, Bell-Drummond has only bowled infrequently in senior cricket, citing a number of injury concerns as the main reason for not doing so.He took his first professional wicket in 2018 and began to bowl rather more frequently during the start of the 2019 season, taking five wickets during Kent's 2019 Royal London One-Day Cup campaign with his "slippery right-arm seamers" and contributing wickets in the County Championship.His best first-class bowling figures of two wickets for six runs were taken against Loughborough MCCU at the start of the 2019 season, whilst he took 2/22 against Surrey during the same season's One-Day Cup, his best List A bowling figures, and 2/19 against Somerset in the 2019 t20 Blast, his first T20 wickets.