Best bowling — wicket leaders

CricketStudio › Leagues › IPL › Leaderboards › Best bowling IPL all-time leaderboard 2007/08 → 2026 1,242 matches 19 seasons Best bowling — wicket leaders Wicket totals across captured IPL matches. Per-innings figures available on player profiles. No minimum ball-count floor — all career wickets included. See across-seasons comparison →← All 35 leaderboards All-time career (2007/08 – 2025) # Player Wickets Sample 1 YS ChahalMIPBKSRCBRR 221 ↗ 3791 legal deliveries bowled 2 B KumarPUNE-WARRIORS-INDIARCBSRH 198 ↗ 4222 legal deliveries bowled 3 PP ChawlaCSKKKRMIPBKS 192 ↗ 3850 legal deliveries bowled 4 SP NarineKKR 192 ↗ 4351 legal deliveries bowled 5 R AshwinCSKDCPBKSRISING-PUNE-SUPERGIANTRR 187 ↗ 4710 legal deliveries bowled 6 JJ BumrahMI 186 ↗ 3359 legal deliveries bowled 7 DJ BravoCSKGUJARAT-LIONSMI 183 ↗ 3120 legal deliveries bowled 8 A MishraDCDECCAN-CHARGERSLSGSRH 174 ↗ 3371 legal deliveries bowled 9 RA JadejaCSKGUJARAT-LIONSKOCHI-TUSKERS-KERALARR 170 ↗ 4056 legal deliveries bowled 10 SL MalingaMI 170 ↗ 2827 legal deliveries bowled 11 Rashid KhanGTSRH 158 3202 legal deliveries bowled 12 HV PatelDCPBKSRCBSRH 151 2424 legal deliveries bowled 13 Harbhajan SinghCSKKKRMI 150 3416 legal deliveries bowled 14 Sandeep SharmaPBKSRRSRH 146 3045 legal deliveries bowled 15 UT YadavDCGTKKRRCB 144 3056 legal deliveries bowled 16 TA BoultDCKKRMIRRSRH 143 2687 legal deliveries bowled 17 MM SharmaCSKDCGTPBKS 134 2403 legal deliveries bowled 18 Mohammed ShamiDCGTKKRPBKSSRH 133 2614 legal deliveries bowled 19 AR PatelDCPBKS 128 3321 legal deliveries bowled 20 AD RussellDCKKR 123 1806 legal deliveries bowled 21 K RabadaDCGTPBKS 122 1911 legal deliveries bowled 22 JD UnadkatDCKKRLSGMIRCBRISING-PUNE-SUPERGIANTRRSRH 110 2274 legal deliveries bowled 23 Mohammed SirajGTRCBSRH 109 2300 legal deliveries bowled 24 SN ThakurCSKDCKKRLSGPBKSRISING-PUNE-SUPERGIANT 107 2070 legal deliveries bowled 25 A NehraCSKDCMIPUNE-WARRIORS-INDIASRH 106 1908 legal deliveries bowled Per-season view # Player Wickets Sample 1 Kagiso RabadaGT 29 388 legal deliveries bowled 2 Bhuvneshwar KumarRCB 28 378 legal deliveries bowled 3 Jofra ArcherRR 25 360 legal deliveries bowled 4 Rashid KhanGT 21 341 legal deliveries bowled 5 Anshul KambojCSK 21 302 legal deliveries bowled 6 Eshan MalingaSRH 20 326 legal deliveries bowled 7 Mohammed SirajGT 19 372 legal deliveries bowled 8 Rasikh Salam DarRCB 19 257 legal deliveries bowled 9 Kartik TyagiKKR 18 306 legal deliveries bowled 10 Jason HolderGT 17 230 legal deliveries bowled 11 Sunil NarineKKR 17 309 legal deliveries bowled 12 Prince YadavLSG 16 313 legal deliveries bowled 13 Prasidh KrishnaGT 16 234 legal deliveries bowled 14 Josh HazlewoodRCB 15 309 legal deliveries bowled 15 AM GhazanfarMI 15 233 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 Wickets Season hub 2026 Kagiso Rabada 29 Full 2026 → 2025 M Prasidh Krishna 25 Full 2025 → 2024 HV Patel 24 Full 2024 → 2023 Mohammed Shami 28 Full 2023 → 2022 YS Chahal 27 Full 2022 → 2021 HV Patel 32 Full 2021 → 2020/21 K Rabada 32 Full 2020/21 → 2019 Imran Tahir 26 Full 2019 → 2018 AJ Tye 24 Full 2018 → 2017 B Kumar 26 Full 2017 → 2016 B Kumar 23 Full 2016 → 2015 DJ Bravo 26 Full 2015 → 2014 MM Sharma 23 Full 2014 → 2013 DJ Bravo 32 Full 2013 → 2012 M Morkel 25 Full 2012 → 2011 SL Malinga 28 Full 2011 → 2009/10 PP Ojha 21 Full 2009/10 → 2009 RP Singh 23 Full 2009 → 2007/08 Sohail Tanvir 22 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): No minimum ball-count floor — all career wickets included. 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: YS Chahal leads IPL all-time best bowling (2007/08–2026) with221. Source: https://players.cricketstudio.ai/leagues/ipl/leaderboards/best-bowling”