Which bowler has the best economy in WPL history?

Computed 26 October 2026Checked by the maintainer

Marizanne Kapp has the best economy in WPL history, conceding just 6.05 runs per over. Across the Women's Premier League (2023 onwards), among bowlers with at least 300 balls bowled, she leads comfortably — her 804 runs from 798 balls (with 38 wickets) puts her well clear of Shabnim Ismail (6.66) and Sophie Ecclestone (6.87).

Supporting result — rows returned by the final query

name	runs	balls	economy	wickets
M Kapp	804	798	6.05	38
S Ismail	709	639	6.66	26
S Ecclestone	873	762	6.87	43
S Pandey	936	780	7.20	37
AC Kerr	926	730	7.61	54
HK Matthews	863	680	7.61	46
M Mani	381	300	7.62	15
RP Yadav	534	420	7.63	16
S Ishaque	530	413	7.70	25
JL Jonassen	685	531	7.74	33

How this was computed (1 query)

SELECT p.name,
       SUM(b.balls) AS balls,
       SUM(b.runs_conceded) AS runs,
       SUM(b.wickets) AS wickets,
       ROUND(SUM(b.runs_conceded)::numeric * 6 / NULLIF(SUM(b.balls),0), 2) AS economy
FROM bowling_innings b
JOIN matches m ON m.id = b.match_id
JOIN players p ON p.id = b.player_id
WHERE m.format = 'WPL'
GROUP BY p.name
HAVING SUM(b.balls) >= 300
ORDER BY economy ASC
LIMIT 10;

Coverage & definitionsCricsheet ball-by-ball · T20 internationals between full-member nations (2005–) and 11 major T20 leagues · data through 24 October 2026Show ▾

Source. Ball-by-ball data from Cricsheet. New matches are loaded from Cricsheet twice a day (10:00 and 22:00 UTC), typically a day or two after a match is published there.

Internationals. T20 internationals are included only when both teams are ICC full members. Fixtures against Associate nations (e.g. Netherlands, Scotland, Nepal, USA) are not in the dataset, so international totals for players who faced them are lower than their full career figures.

Leagues. Leagues: IPL, BBL, PSL, CPL, SA20, MLC, ILT20, BPL, LPL, WBBL, WPL — full history of each. Domestic T20 competitions outside this list (e.g. the Blast, SMAT, Super Smash) are not included.

Exclusions. Super overs are excluded from every total. Match appearances (M) come from the playing XI in each match file, so a match where a player neither batted nor bowled still counts as an appearance. Where M is missing, that player's appearances have not been loaded yet.

This answer was computed on 26 October 2026 against the dataset as it stood then; matches added since are not reflected. Ask the question again for a fresh answer.

The question was interpreted by a language model, which wrote the queries. The supporting rows are the source of truth; the prose summarises them.

Inns (batting) — innings in which the player came to the crease, including as non-striker without facing a ball. In T20 a player bats at most once per match, so Inns is also the number of matches they batted in; M can be higher.
Inns (bowling) — innings in which the player bowled at least one delivery. Matches where they did not bowl are not counted.
Batting average — runs divided by dismissals. Bowling average — runs conceded divided by wickets. Not-out innings add runs but no dismissal.
Batting strike rate — runs per 100 balls faced (wides excluded). Bowling strike rate — balls per wicket.
Economy — runs conceded per six legal balls bowled.
Dot ball — a legal delivery (no wide or no-ball) from which no runs were scored, including byes and leg-byes.

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