Best bowling strike rate

About this leaderboard

Best bowling strike rate — Fewest balls per wicket across IPL career. Lower is better — measures how quickly a bowler takes wickets. Minimum 90 legal deliveries bowled.

All-time career (2007/08 – 2026)

• Corbin Bosch (MI) — 10.1 balls per wicket (121 legal deliveries)
• MA Wood (CSK, LSG) — 10.9 (120 legal deliveries)
• Shardul Thakur (MI) — 11.0 (132 legal deliveries)
• Praful Hinge (SRH) — 11.1 (156 legal deliveries)
• Ashwani Kumar (MI) — 11.2 (123 legal deliveries)
• Sohail Tanvir (RR) — 11.2 (247 legal deliveries)
• Umar Gul (KKR) — 11.3 (135 legal deliveries)
• CK Langeveldt (KKR, RCB) — 12.0 (156 legal deliveries)
• Mitchell Starc (DC) — 12.0 (132 legal deliveries)
• Jamie Overton (CSK) — 12.0 (168 legal deliveries)
• E Malinga (SRH) — 12.3 (160 legal deliveries)
• L Ngidi (CSK, RCB) — 12.8 (372 legal deliveries)
• Kagiso Rabada (GT) — 13.4 (388 legal deliveries)
• MP Yadav (LSG) — 13.4 (121 legal deliveries)
• Bhuvneshwar Kumar (RCB) — 13.5 (378 legal deliveries)
• Rasikh Salam Dar (RCB) — 13.5 (257 legal deliveries)
• Jason Holder (GT) — 13.5 (230 legal deliveries)
• BJ Hodge (KKR, KOCHI-TUSKERS-KERALA) — 13.8 (234 legal deliveries)
• CRD Fernando (MI) — 13.8 (234 legal deliveries)
• R Sai Kishore (GT) — 13.8 (441 legal deliveries)
• YA Abdulla (PBKS) — 13.9 (209 legal deliveries)
• Anshul Kamboj (CSK) — 14.4 (302 legal deliveries)
• Jofra Archer (RR) — 14.4 (360 legal deliveries)
• A Ashish Reddy (DECCAN-CHARGERS, SRH) — 14.6 (262 legal deliveries)
• N Burger (RR) — 14.6 (102 legal deliveries)

Per-season view (2026)

• Corbin Bosch (MI) — 10.1 (121 legal deliveries)
• Shardul Thakur (MI) — 11.0 (132 legal deliveries)
• Praful Hinge (SRH) — 11.1 (156 legal deliveries)
• Mitchell Starc (DC) — 12.0 (132 legal deliveries)
• Jamie Overton (CSK) — 12.0 (168 legal deliveries)
• Kagiso Rabada (GT) — 13.4 (388 legal deliveries)
• Bhuvneshwar Kumar (RCB) — 13.5 (378 legal deliveries)
• Rasikh Salam Dar (RCB) — 13.5 (257 legal deliveries)
• Jason Holder (GT) — 13.5 (230 legal deliveries)
• Ravi Bishnoi (RR) — 14.2 (156 legal deliveries)
• Anshul Kamboj (CSK) — 14.4 (302 legal deliveries)
• Jofra Archer (RR) — 14.4 (360 legal deliveries)
• Prasidh Krishna (GT) — 14.6 (234 legal deliveries)
• Manimaran Siddharth (LSG) — 15.0 (90 legal deliveries)
• Mohsin Khan (LSG) — 15.3 (168 legal deliveries)

15 qualifying players. Source: Cricsheet (CC BY 3.0). CricketStudio SETU aggregation.

Season leaders

Who topped this leaderboard in each IPL season.

• 2026 — Corbin Bosch (10.1) Full 2026 →
• 2025 — Ashwani Kumar (11.2) Full 2025 →
• 2024 — AD Russell (9.3) Full 2024 →
• 2023 — MA Wood (8.7) Full 2023 →
• 2022 — AD Russell (9.9) Full 2022 →
• 2021 — AD Russell (10.4) Full 2021 →
• 2020/21 — L Ngidi (10.7) Full 2020/21 →
• 2019 — KK Ahmed (11.0) Full 2019 →
• 2018 — CR Woakes (13.8) Full 2018 →
• 2017 — AJ Tye (10.5) Full 2017 →
• 2016 — A Zampa (8.5) Full 2016 →
• 2015 — DJ Bravo (12.1) Full 2015 →
• 2014 — Karanveer Singh (10.9) Full 2014 →
• 2013 — DJ Bravo (11.7) Full 2013 →
• 2012 — DE Bollinger (13.5) Full 2012 →
• 2011 — S Aravind (13.1) Full 2011 →
• 2009/10 — RJ Harris (13.1) Full 2009/10 →
• 2009 — A Singh (11.7) Full 2009 →
• 2007/08 — A Mishra (10.8) 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 90 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: Corbin Bosch leads IPL all-time bowling sr (2007/08–2026) with 10.1. Source: https://players.cricketstudio.ai/leagues/ipl/leaderboards/bowling-strike-rate"