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Best bowling average — Big Bash League
Mitchell Starc leads the best bowling average in BBL history with a bowling average of 15.23 from 30 wickets; Yasir Arafat is next with a bowling average of 16.42 from 26 wickets. The all-time top 50 below is computed from ball-by-ball data of every Big Bash League match in our dataset and refreshed daily.
Minimum 20 wickets.
| # | Player | Inns | Wkts | Avg | Econ | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mitchell Starc | 15 | 30 | 15.23 | 7.95 | 11.5 |
| 2 | Yasir Arafat | 15 | 26 | 16.42 | 7.43 | 13.27 |
| 3 | Haris Rauf | 33 | 56 | 16.48 | 7.92 | 12.48 |
| 4 | Rashid Khan | 68 | 98 | 17.51 | 6.44 | 16.31 |
| 5 | Cooper Connolly | 28 | 27 | 18.26 | 6.85 | 16 |
| 6 | David Payne | 22 | 33 | 18.97 | 7.96 | 14.3 |
| 7 | Spencer Johnson | 28 | 41 | 19.22 | 7.55 | 15.27 |
| 8 | Chris Morris | 15 | 22 | 19.36 | 8.01 | 14.5 |
| 9 | Josh Hazlewood | 18 | 25 | 19.68 | 7.34 | 16.08 |
| 10 | Jason Behrendorff | 112 | 145 | 19.95 | 7.12 | 16.81 |
| 11 | Sean Abbott | 129 | 185 | 20.1 | 8.36 | 14.42 |
| 12 | Henry Thornton | 35 | 51 | 20.2 | 8.68 | 13.96 |
| 13 | James Faulkner | 66 | 80 | 20.3 | 7.73 | 15.76 |
| 14 | Tim Bresnan | 13 | 20 | 20.3 | 8.58 | 14.2 |
| 15 | Matthew Kelly | 39 | 55 | 20.55 | 8.12 | 15.18 |
| 16 | Jamie Overton | 27 | 39 | 20.59 | 8.36 | 14.77 |
| 17 | Tom Curran | 51 | 72 | 20.61 | 8.28 | 14.94 |
| 18 | Carlos Brathwaite | 23 | 28 | 20.64 | 7.85 | 15.79 |
| 19 | Jhye Richardson | 80 | 113 | 20.72 | 7.88 | 15.78 |
| 20 | John Hastings | 36 | 48 | 20.79 | 7.87 | 15.85 |
| 21 | Andrew Tye | 116 | 160 | 20.92 | 8.01 | 15.67 |
| 22 | Peter Siddle | 103 | 127 | 21.06 | 7.56 | 16.72 |
| 23 | Nathan Lyon | 36 | 43 | 21.35 | 7.19 | 17.81 |
| 24 | Dirk Nannes | 24 | 28 | 21.86 | 7.02 | 18.68 |
| 25 | Daniel Sams | 96 | 128 | 22.02 | 8.67 | 15.23 |
| 26 | Nathan Coulter-Nile | 74 | 90 | 22.1 | 7.46 | 17.77 |
| 27 | Ben Dwarshuis | 126 | 164 | 22.13 | 8.1 | 16.4 |
| 28 | Todd Murphy | 29 | 21 | 22.14 | 6.74 | 19.71 |
| 29 | Lloyd Pope | 50 | 62 | 22.16 | 8.38 | 15.87 |
| 30 | Paddy Dooley | 21 | 26 | 22.19 | 7.61 | 17.5 |
| 31 | Stephen O'Keefe | 95 | 99 | 22.23 | 6.59 | 20.23 |
| 32 | Paul Walter | 17 | 21 | 22.24 | 8.81 | 15.14 |
| 33 | Tanveer Sangha | 49 | 55 | 22.51 | 7.41 | 18.22 |
| 34 | Mitchell Johnson | 19 | 20 | 22.75 | 6.15 | 22.2 |
| 35 | Lance Morris | 35 | 40 | 22.95 | 8.28 | 16.63 |
| 36 | Jack Edwards | 33 | 38 | 23.03 | 7.93 | 17.42 |
| 37 | Mark Steketee | 77 | 104 | 23.05 | 8.94 | 15.46 |
| 38 | Riley Meredith | 90 | 117 | 23.1 | 8.33 | 16.63 |
| 39 | Xavier Bartlett | 58 | 75 | 23.12 | 8.69 | 15.96 |
| 40 | Shadab Khan | 17 | 21 | 23.14 | 7.97 | 17.43 |
| 41 | Jofra Archer | 27 | 34 | 23.29 | 7.73 | 18.09 |
| 42 | Hayden Kerr | 51 | 58 | 23.31 | 8.44 | 16.57 |
| 43 | Shaun Tait | 31 | 42 | 23.5 | 8.79 | 16.05 |
| 44 | Gurinder Sandhu | 81 | 92 | 23.57 | 8.27 | 17.1 |
| 45 | Tom Rogers | 59 | 76 | 23.59 | 8.39 | 16.87 |
| 46 | Wes Agar | 69 | 87 | 23.68 | 9.12 | 15.57 |
| 47 | Kane Richardson | 113 | 138 | 23.68 | 7.92 | 17.94 |
| 48 | Adam Zampa | 116 | 130 | 24.12 | 7.31 | 19.81 |
| 49 | Qais Ahmad | 27 | 32 | 24.13 | 7.67 | 18.88 |
| 50 | Marcus Stoinis | 68 | 58 | 24.17 | 8.48 | 17.1 |
Coverage & definitionsCricsheet ball-by-ball · Big Bash League · data through 13 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. The dataset has no playing-XI record, so match appearances can't be counted. A match where a player neither batted nor bowled is not reflected anywhere in their figures.
Inns counts innings in which the player bowled. Matches where they did not bowl are not included.
- 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.
- Economy — runs conceded per six legal balls bowled.
- Batting strike rate — runs per 100 balls faced (wides excluded). Bowling strike rate — balls per wicket.