Best bowling — wicket leaders

Wicket totals across captured IPL matches (2007/08 – 2026). Per-innings figures available on player profiles. No minimum ball-count floor — all career wickets included.

All-time career (2007/08 – 2025)

# Player Wickets Legal deliveries bowled 1 YS Chahal
MI, PBKS, RCB, RR 221 3791 2 B Kumar
PUNE WARRIORS INDIA, RCB, SRH 198 4222 3 PP Chawla
CSK, KKR, MI, PBKS 192 3850 4 SP Narine
KKR 192 4351 5 R Ashwin
CSK, DC, PBKS, RISING PUNE SUPERGIANT, RR 187 4710 6 JJ Bumrah
MI 186 3359 7 DJ Bravo
CSK, GUJARAT LIONS, MI 183 3120 8 A Mishra
DC, DECCAN CHARGERS, LSG, SRH 174 3371 9 RA Jadeja
CSK, GUJARAT LIONS, KOCHI TUSKERS KERALA, RR 170 4056 10 SL Malinga
MI 170 2827 11 Rashid Khan
GT, SRH 158 3202 12 HV Patel
DC, PBKS, RCB, SRH 151 2424 13 Harbhajan Singh
CSK, KKR, MI 150 3416 14 Sandeep Sharma
PBKS, RR, SRH 146 3045 15 UT Yadav
DC, GT, KKR, RCB 144 3056 16 TA Boult
DC, KKR, MI, RR, SRH 143 2687 17 MM Sharma
CSK, DC, GT, PBKS 134 2403 18 Mohammed Shami
DC, GT, KKR, PBKS, SRH 133 2614 19 AR Patel
DC, PBKS 128 3321 20 AD Russell
DC, KKR 123 1806 21 K Rabada
DC, GT, PBKS 122 1911 22 JD Unadkat
DC, KKR, LSG, MI, RCB, RISING PUNE SUPERGIANT, RR, SRH 110 2274 23 Mohammed Siraj
GT, RCB, SRH 109 2300 24 SN Thakur
CSK, DC, KKR, LSG, PBKS, RISING PUNE SUPERGIANT 107 2070 25 A Nehra
CSK, DC, MI, PUNE WARRIORS INDIA, SRH 106 1908

Season 2026

# Player Wickets Legal deliveries bowled 1 Kagiso Rabada
GT 29 388 2 Bhuvneshwar Kumar
RCB 28 378 3 Jofra Archer
RR 25 360 4 Rashid Khan
GT 21 341 5 Anshul Kamboj
CSK 21 302 6 Eshan Malinga
SRH 20 326 7 Mohammed Siraj
GT 19 372 8 Rasikh Salam Dar
RCB 19 257 9 Kartik Tyagi
KKR 18 306 10 Jason Holder
GT 17 230 11 Sunil Narine
KKR 17 309 12 Prince Yadav
LSG 16 313 13 Prasidh Krishna
GT 16 234 14 Josh Hazlewood
RCB 15 309 15 <