Best bowling economy rates

CricketStudio › Leagues › IPL › Leaderboards › Economy IPL all-time leaderboard 2007/08 → 2026 1,242 matches 19 seasons Best bowling economy rates Lowest bowling economy rates with a minimum sample floor. Minimum 15 legal deliveries bowled. See across-seasons comparison →← All 35 leaderboards All-time career (2007/08 – 2025) # Player Economy (RPO) Sample 1 NB SinghGUJARAT-LIONS 3.75 ↗ 24 legal deliveries bowled 2 DJ ThornelyMI 5.71 ↗ 42 legal deliveries bowled 3 M ManhasCSKDCPUNE-WARRIORS-INDIA 6.00 ↗ 42 legal deliveries bowled 4 MJ ClarkePUNE-WARRIORS-INDIA 6.09 ↗ 66 legal deliveries bowled 5 A ChandilaRR 6.21 ↗ 234 legal deliveries bowled 6 MW ShortPBKS 6.25 ↗ 24 legal deliveries bowled 7 DJM ShortRR 6.33 ↗ 18 legal deliveries bowled 8 NJ RimmingtonPBKS 6.33 ↗ 18 legal deliveries bowled 9 PH SolankiCSK 6.33 ↗ 36 legal deliveries bowled 10 Sohail TanvirRR 6.46 ↗ 247 legal deliveries bowled 11 KA MaharajRR 6.50 36 legal deliveries bowled 12 SMSM SenanayakeKKR 6.53 192 legal deliveries bowled 13 SM PollockMI 6.54 276 legal deliveries bowled 14 A KumbleRCB 6.58 965 legal deliveries bowled 15 FH EdwardsDECCAN-CHARGERS 6.60 140 legal deliveries bowled 16 Sunil NarineKKR 6.60 309 legal deliveries bowled 17 GD McGrathDC 6.61 324 legal deliveries bowled 18 T HendersonRR 6.67 36 legal deliveries bowled 19 IS SodhiRR 6.70 181 legal deliveries bowled 20 M MuralitharanCSKKOCHI-TUSKERS-KERALARCB 6.70 1528 legal deliveries bowled 21 GH VihariDCSRH 6.71 42 legal deliveries bowled 22 RE van der MerweDCRCB 6.74 443 legal deliveries bowled 23 GR NapierMI 6.75 24 legal deliveries bowled 24 S RanaPUNE-WARRIORS-INDIARCB 6.75 16 legal deliveries bowled 25 DL VettoriDCRCB 6.79 777 legal deliveries bowled Per-season view # Player Economy (RPO) Sample 1 Sunil NarineKKR 6.60 309 legal deliveries bowled 2 Harpreet BrarPBKS 7.50 48 legal deliveries bowled 3 Jason HolderGT 7.57 230 legal deliveries bowled 4 Bhuvneshwar KumarRCB 7.95 378 legal deliveries bowled 5 Ramakrishna GhoshCSK 8.00 18 legal deliveries bowled 6 Akeal HoseinCSK 8.03 148 legal deliveries bowled 7 Mohsin KhanLSG 8.14 168 legal deliveries bowled 8 Axar PatelDC 8.18 264 legal deliveries bowled 9 Lungi NgidiDC 8.23 248 legal deliveries bowled 10 Saurabh DubeyKKR 8.26 77 legal deliveries bowled 11 Jasprit BumrahMI 8.35 294 legal deliveries bowled 12 Noor AhmadCSK 8.39 306 legal deliveries bowled 13 Ravindra JadejaRR 8.39 198 legal deliveries bowled 14 Krunal PandyaRCB 8.42 303 legal deliveries bowled 15 Khaleel AhmedCSK 8.67 101 legal deliveries bowled Season 2026 15 qualifying players Source: Cricsheet (CC BY 3.0) CricketStudio SETU aggregation Season leaders Who topped this leaderboard in each IPL season. Full season breakdown at across-seasons → Season Leader Economy (RPO) Season hub 2026 Sunil Narine 6.60 Full 2026 → 2025 Naman Dhir 5.25 Full 2025 → 2024 NT Ellis 6.00 Full 2024 → 2023 MW Short 6.25 Full 2023 → 2022 SP Narine 5.57 Full 2022 → 2021 Imran Tahir 4.00 Full 2021 → 2020/21 Rashid Khan 5.34 Full 2020/21 → 2019 STR Binny 6.29 Full 2019 → 2018 IS Sodhi 5.87 Full 2018 → 2017 NB Singh 3.75 Full 2017 → 2016 MR Marsh 5.00 Full 2016 → 2015 J Yadav 4.14 Full 2015 → 2014 Ankit Sharma 5.38 Full 2014 → 2013 Anand Rajan 5.25 Full 2013 → 2012 L Balaji 5.40 Full 2012 → 2011 AA Chavan 5.40 Full 2011 → 2009/10 V Sehwag 4.06 Full 2009/10 → 2009 R Ashwin 3.25 Full 2009 → 2007/08 DJ Thornely 5.71 Full 2007/08 → Sources & methodology Derived from the canonical IPL historical SETU snapshot — ball-by-ball records sourced from Cricsheet under CC BY 3.0. 1,242 matches across 19 seasons (2007/08 → 2026).Sample-size floor (doctrine3.1): Minimum 15 legal deliveries bowled. Claims below this floor are excluded.IPL 2026: live season data surfaced separately at /season/ipl-2026. Some aspects (fastest-fifty, fastest-hundred, most-maidens, hat-tricks) are IPL 2026 only. Provenance. Citation format: “According to CricketStudio: NB Singh leads IPL all-time economy (2007/08–2026) with3.75. Source: https://players.cricketstudio.ai/leagues/ipl/leaderboards/economy-leaders”