T20 player rankings

Best Indian Premier League bowling economy rates

Compare the lowest bowling economy rates in Indian Premier League for players with at least 120 legal balls.

Minimum 120 legal balls; ranked from lowest to highest economy rate. 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	Economy	Wkts	Dot-ball %	SR
1	A Chandila	12	234	6.21	11	44.02%	21.27
2	Sohail Tanvir	11	247	6.46	22	48.99%	11.23
3	Sachithra Senanayake	8	192	6.53	9	38.02%	21.33
4	Shaun Pollock	13	276	6.54	11	47.10%	25.09
5	Anil Kumble	42	965	6.58	45	38.76%	21.44
6	Fidel Edwards	6	140	6.60	5	50.00%	28.00
7	Glenn McGrath	14	324	6.61	12	47.22%	27.00
8	Muttiah Muralitharan	66	1524	6.68	63	39.24%	24.19
9	Ish Sodhi	8	181	6.70	9	35.36%	20.11
10	van der Merwe	21	443	6.74	21	33.41%	21.10
11	Sunil Narine	200	4651	6.79	207	38.36%	22.47
12	Daniel Vettori	34	777	6.79	28	34.75%	27.75
13	Ravi Rampaul	12	262	6.82	14	48.47%	18.71
14	Jayant Yadav	20	390	6.85	8	39.23%	48.75
15	Makhaya Ntini	9	210	6.91	7	47.14%	30.00
16	Dale Steyn	95	2176	6.92	97	46.83%	22.43
17	Johan Botha	34	694	6.92	25	36.60%	27.76
18	D Mascarenhas	13	308	6.94	19	40.26%	16.21
19	R Sharma	43	922	7.04	40	35.90%	23.05
20	Harbhajan Singh	160	3416	7.08	150	36.97%	22.77
21	A Murtaza	12	264	7.11	9	38.26%	29.33
22	Ajantha Mendis	10	240	7.12	8	31.67%	30.00
23	Lasith Malinga	122	2827	7.14	170	40.47%	16.63
24	Thilan Thushara	6	135	7.16	8	42.22%	16.88
25	Charl Langeveldt	7	156	7.19	13	44.23%	12.00
26	Ravi Ashwin	217	4710	7.20	187	34.10%	25.19
27	Doug Bollinger	27	576	7.22	37	44.10%	15.57
28	Iqbal Abdulla	48	920	7.23	40	35.98%	23.00
29	Shane Bond	8	186	7.23	9	40.32%	20.67
30	Murali Kartik	55	1149	7.25	31	33.25%	37.06
31	Shane Warne	54	1194	7.27	57	35.68%	20.95
32	Rashid Khan	153	3530	7.28	179	35.52%	19.72
33	D Nannes	29	646	7.29	28	44.12%	23.07
34	Jasprit Bumrah	158	3631	7.34	187	39.99%	19.42
35	Moeen Ali	56	830	7.34	39	34.22%	21.28
36	Ankit Sharma	21	367	7.36	12	37.33%	30.58
37	Pragyan Ojha	90	1899	7.37	89	35.12%	21.34
38	Amit Mishra	162	3371	7.38	174	35.15%	19.37
39	Jean-Paul Duminy	49	678	7.38	23	34.51%	29.48
40	Suresh Raina	69	908	7.39	25	30.84%	36.32
41	Yusuf Pathan	82	1147	7.40	42	34.26%	27.31
42	Axar Patel	172	3567	7.41	139	32.60%	25.66
43	Rajat Bhatia	91	1636	7.41	71	26.65%	23.04
44	Kevin Pietersen	13	174	7.41	7	31.03%	24.86
45	Ramesh Powar	26	426	7.42	13	38.97%	32.77
46	S Badree	12	258	7.42	11	42.25%	23.45
47	Yuvraj Singh	72	863	7.43	36	29.55%	23.97
48	Farveez Maharoof	20	420	7.43	27	39.29%	15.56
49	Shakib Al Hasan	70	1484	7.44	63	33.96%	23.56
50	Mohammad Nabi	23	417	7.44	15	35.01%	27.80
51	Brad Hogg	21	458	7.47	23	34.72%	19.91
52	Shahid Afridi	10	180	7.50	9	31.67%	20.00
53	Mitchell Santner	35	687	7.51	30	35.08%	22.90
54	Brett Lee	38	875	7.51	25	42.74%	35.00
55	Munaf Patel	63	1355	7.52	74	43.54%	18.31
56	Ryan Harris	37	832	7.55	45	43.75%	18.49
57	Chaminda Vaas	13	282	7.55	18	45.39%	15.67
58	Shahbaz Nadeem	70	1415	7.56	48	32.01%	29.48
59	D Willey	11	216	7.56	6	36.57%	36.00
60	K Pandya	147	2701	7.57	107	31.28%	25.24
61	Zaheer Khan	99	2200	7.59	102	39.68%	21.57
62	S Trivedi	75	1506	7.59	65	32.67%	23.17
63	Pravin V Tambe	32	642	7.61	28	31.46%	22.93
64	Stuart Binny	62	570	7.64	21	32.81%	27.14
65	Dilhara Fernando	10	234	7.64	17	42.31%	13.76
66	V Malik	13	205	7.64	6	40.98%	34.17
67	Andrew Symonds	30	527	7.67	20	36.05%	26.35
68	Scott Styris	11	216	7.67	8	38.43%	27.00
69	Ishwar Chandra Pandey	24	462	7.68	18	45.89%	25.67
70	Morne Morkel	70	1629	7.69	77	43.46%	21.16
71	Suraj Randiv	8	174	7.69	6	34.48%	29.00
72	Nathan Coulter-Nile	38	857	7.70	48	42.94%	17.85
73	Jesse Ryder	16	236	7.70	8	33.47%	29.50
74	Bhuvneshwar Kumar	206	4600	7.71	226	41.24%	20.35
75	CV Varun	94	2134	7.72	111	36.22%	19.23
76	B Akhil	13	188	7.72	6	31.91%	31.33
77	Ravindra Jadeja	236	4236	7.73	179	31.49%	23.66
78	Praveen Kumar	119	2524	7.73	90	42.59%	28.04
79	Ben Hilfenhaus	17	372	7.73	22	46.51%	16.91
80	Imran Tahir	59	1316	7.76	82	33.21%	16.05
81	Washington Sundar	68	1174	7.77	40	32.79%	29.35
82	Bradley Hodge	20	234	7.77	17	32.05%	13.76
83	Irfan Pathan	101	2043	7.78	80	40.87%	25.54
84	R Chahar	79	1694	7.78	75	34.24%	22.59
85	Wayne Parnell	33	723	7.78	35	40.94%	20.66
86	Azhar Mahmood	23	537	7.82	29	37.06%	18.52
87	Ashish Nehra	88	1908	7.85	106	41.82%	18.00
88	A Singh	23	473	7.86	28	39.96%	16.89
89	DP Vijaykumar	9	152	7.86	4	41.45%	38.00
90	Pawan Negi	42	716	7.87	34	33.10%	21.06
91	T Suman	11	150	7.88	6	28.67%	25.00
92	K Cooper	25	576	7.89	33	31.94%	17.45
93	Sourav Ganguly	20	276	7.89	10	27.17%	27.60
94	A Chavan	13	248	7.89	8	40.32%	31.00
95	RP Singh	82	1775	7.90	90	41.92%	19.72
96	Jacques Kallis	89	1742	7.90	65	34.50%	26.80
97	Chris Gayle	38	554	7.90	18	32.49%	30.78
98	A Thomas	14	297	7.90	14	39.39%	21.21
99	R Tewatia	52	843	7.91	32	31.32%	26.34
100	Shane Watson	104	2011	7.92	92	39.63%	21.86