T20 player rankings

Highest Indian Premier League bowling dot-ball rates

Compare dot-ball percentages for Indian Premier League bowlers with at least 120 legal balls in the current CricLens dataset.

Minimum 120 legal balls; dot-ball rate is dot balls divided by legal balls bowled. Aggregated from 1,237 Indian Premier League matches in the current CricLens historical dataset. Rankings describe this dataset, not an all-time official record book.

#	Player	Inns	Balls	Dot-ball %	Dots	Wkts	Econ
1	Fidel Edwards	6	140	50.00%	70	5	6.60
2	Sohail Tanvir	11	247	48.99%	121	22	6.46
3	Ravi Rampaul	12	262	48.47%	127	14	6.82
4	Sheldon Cottrell	6	120	48.33%	58	6	8.80
5	Glenn McGrath	14	324	47.22%	153	12	6.61
6	Makhaya Ntini	9	210	47.14%	99	7	6.91
7	Shaun Pollock	13	276	47.10%	130	11	6.54
8	Dale Steyn	95	2176	46.83%	1019	97	6.92
9	Ben Hilfenhaus	17	372	46.51%	173	22	7.73
10	Ishwar Chandra Pandey	24	462	45.89%	212	18	7.68
11	Chaminda Vaas	13	282	45.39%	128	18	7.55
12	S Sreesanth	44	880	45.34%	399	40	8.14
13	S Tyagi	14	209	44.50%	93	6	8.47
14	Billy Stanlake	6	144	44.44%	64	7	8.33
15	Charl Langeveldt	7	156	44.23%	69	13	7.19
16	D Nannes	29	646	44.12%	285	28	7.29
17	Doug Bollinger	27	576	44.10%	254	37	7.22
18	A Chandila	12	234	44.02%	103	11	6.21
19	Ryan Harris	37	832	43.75%	364	45	7.55
20	Munaf Patel	63	1355	43.54%	590	74	7.52
21	Morne Morkel	70	1629	43.46%	708	77	7.69
22	Mitchell Johnson	54	1232	43.26%	533	61	8.29
23	Nathan Coulter-Nile	38	857	42.94%	368	48	7.70
24	Jofra Archer	68	1578	42.90%	677	84	8.22
25	Sandeep Warrier	10	168	42.86%	72	8	9.04
26	Brett Lee	38	875	42.74%	374	25	7.51
27	Praveen Kumar	119	2524	42.59%	1075	90	7.73
28	Simarjeet Singh	14	240	42.50%	102	11	10.00
29	MP Yadav	10	217	42.40%	92	9	10.15
30	Dilhara Fernando	10	234	42.31%	99	17	7.64
31	Shaun Tait	21	473	42.28%	200	23	8.12
32	S Badree	12	258	42.25%	109	11	7.42
33	Thilan Thushara	6	135	42.22%	57	8	7.16
34	D Chahar	102	2044	42.17%	862	96	8.28
35	YA Abdulla	11	209	42.11%	88	15	8.81
36	Josh Hazlewood	52	1176	42.01%	494	72	8.62
37	RP Singh	82	1775	41.92%	744	90	7.90
38	Ashish Nehra	88	1908	41.82%	798	106	7.85
39	Mohsin Khan (2)	30	654	41.59%	272	38	8.41
40	Umran Malik	26	493	41.58%	205	29	9.40
41	Md Siraj	125	2672	41.58%	1111	128	8.78
42	P Parameswaran	8	154	41.56%	64	9	8.73
43	Dhawal Kulkarni	91	1763	41.46%	731	85	8.30
44	DP Vijaykumar	9	152	41.45%	63	4	7.86
45	Ashoke Dinda	75	1516	41.36%	627	69	8.20
46	Ishant Sharma	117	2419	41.30%	999	96	8.38
47	Bhuvneshwar Kumar	206	4600	41.24%	1897	226	7.71
48	K Ahmed	76	1657	41.22%	683	91	8.96
49	Corbin Bosch	8	163	41.10%	67	13	9.20
50	Mukesh Choudhary	24	483	40.99%	198	25	9.58
51	Navdeep Saini	33	676	40.98%	277	23	8.97
52	V Malik	13	205	40.98%	84	6	7.64
53	Wayne Parnell	33	723	40.94%	296	35	7.78
54	Irfan Pathan	101	2043	40.87%	835	80	7.78
55	Trent Boult	124	2780	40.83%	1135	145	8.49
56	Lasith Malinga	122	2827	40.47%	1144	170	7.14
57	Shane Bond	8	186	40.32%	75	9	7.23
58	A Chavan	13	248	40.32%	100	8	7.89
59	D Mascarenhas	13	308	40.26%	124	19	6.94
60	N Burger	18	363	40.22%	146	21	9.67
61	Jasprit Bumrah	158	3631	39.99%	1452	187	7.34
62	Mohammed Shami	132	2912	39.97%	1164	145	8.67
63	A Singh	23	473	39.96%	189	28	7.86
64	Mitchell McClenaghan	56	1274	39.80%	507	71	8.49
65	Zaheer Khan	99	2200	39.68%	873	102	7.59
66	M Prasidh Krishna	78	1733	39.64%	687	90	8.99
67	Shane Watson	104	2011	39.63%	797	92	7.92
68	Daniel Sams	16	360	39.44%	142	14	8.72
69	A Thomas	14	297	39.39%	117	14	7.90
70	Kagiso Rabada	101	2290	39.39%	902	148	8.80
71	Mitchell Starc	55	1179	39.36%	464	76	8.79
72	Farveez Maharoof	20	420	39.29%	165	27	7.43
73	Muttiah Muralitharan	66	1524	39.24%	598	63	6.68
74	Jayant Yadav	20	390	39.23%	153	8	6.85
75	Parvinder Awana	33	747	39.22%	293	39	8.27
76	Manpreet Singh Grewal	44	888	39.19%	348	37	8.70
77	Mark Wood	5	120	39.17%	47	11	8.95
78	Shivam Mavi	32	649	39.14%	254	30	8.71
79	Yudhvir Singh	9	138	39.13%	54	8	11.00
80	Ramesh Powar	26	426	38.97%	166	13	7.42
81	Varun Aaron	50	994	38.93%	387	44	8.94
82	Umesh Yadav	147	3050	38.85%	1185	144	8.49
83	Anil Kumble	42	965	38.76%	374	45	6.58
84	Kamran Khan	9	160	38.75%	62	9	8.40
85	Chris Morris	81	1720	38.72%	666	95	8.01
86	Kane Richardson	15	335	38.51%	129	19	8.45
87	PP Hinge	7	156	38.46%	60	14	11.73
88	Scott Styris	11	216	38.43%	83	8	7.67
89	Lungi Ngidi	27	620	38.39%	238	42	8.41
90	Sunil Narine	200	4651	38.36%	1784	207	6.79
91	Dushmantha Chameera	19	384	38.28%	147	13	9.70
92	A Murtaza	12	264	38.26%	101	9	7.11
93	Anand Rajan	8	149	38.26%	57	8	8.09
94	HR Shokeen	13	204	38.24%	78	5	9.24
95	Arvind Sreenath	38	760	38.16%	290	45	8.20
96	Sandeep Sharma	142	3159	38.14%	1205	151	8.16
97	Ashok Sharma	6	126	38.10%	48	6	10.86
98	Harshit Rana	32	649	38.06%	247	40	9.51
99	Sachithra Senanayake	8	192	38.02%	73	9	6.53
100	Kyle Jamieson	15	300	38.00%	114	16	10.12