Records / Big Bash League
Best economy — Big Bash League
Muttiah Muralitharan leads the best economy in BBL history with an economy of 5.7 across 61.0 overs; Mitchell Johnson is next with an economy of 6.15 across 74.0 overs. 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 300 balls bowled.
| # | Player | Inns | Overs | Wkts | Econ | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Muttiah Muralitharan | 16 | 61.0 | 19 | 5.7 | 18.32 |
| 2 | Mitchell Johnson | 19 | 74.0 | 20 | 6.15 | 22.75 |
| 3 | Samuel Badree | 13 | 52.0 | 14 | 6.42 | 23.86 |
| 4 | Mujeeb Ur Rahman | 52 | 201.2 | 52 | 6.42 | 24.85 |
| 5 | Rashid Khan | 68 | 266.2 | 98 | 6.44 | 17.51 |
| 6 | Stephen O'Keefe | 95 | 333.5 | 99 | 6.59 | 22.23 |
| 7 | Michael Beer | 52 | 185.3 | 40 | 6.71 | 31.13 |
| 8 | Brad Hogg | 55 | 205.0 | 55 | 6.73 | 25.07 |
| 9 | Todd Murphy | 29 | 69.0 | 21 | 6.74 | 22.14 |
| 10 | Akeal Hosein | 15 | 58.0 | 19 | 6.79 | 20.74 |
| 11 | Alfonso Thomas | 20 | 70.4 | 19 | 6.83 | 25.42 |
| 12 | Cooper Connolly | 28 | 72.0 | 27 | 6.85 | 18.26 |
| 13 | Dirk Nannes | 24 | 87.1 | 28 | 7.02 | 21.86 |
| 14 | Daniel Vettori | 14 | 55.0 | 9 | 7.02 | 42.89 |
| 15 | Jason Behrendorff | 112 | 406.1 | 145 | 7.12 | 19.95 |
| 16 | Fawad Ahmed | 93 | 347.3 | 90 | 7.13 | 27.54 |
| 17 | Brett Lee | 34 | 132.2 | 33 | 7.17 | 28.76 |
| 18 | Nathan Lyon | 36 | 127.4 | 43 | 7.19 | 21.35 |
| 19 | Johan Botha | 64 | 204.1 | 41 | 7.2 | 35.85 |
| 20 | James Hopes | 28 | 92.1 | 20 | 7.24 | 33.35 |
| 21 | Aaron O'Brien | 22 | 78.0 | 21 | 7.26 | 26.95 |
| 22 | Chris Green | 117 | 372.1 | 86 | 7.27 | 31.44 |
| 23 | Adam Zampa | 116 | 429.1 | 130 | 7.31 | 24.12 |
| 24 | Ben Manenti | 37 | 99.3 | 22 | 7.32 | 33.09 |
| 25 | Josh Hazlewood | 18 | 67.0 | 25 | 7.34 | 19.68 |
| 26 | Ashton Agar | 93 | 316.0 | 73 | 7.35 | 31.82 |
| 27 | Zahir Khan | 29 | 107.3 | 26 | 7.39 | 30.54 |
| 28 | Jackson Bird | 84 | 287.3 | 84 | 7.39 | 25.29 |
| 29 | Mohammad Nabi | 40 | 106.5 | 28 | 7.4 | 28.25 |
| 30 | Tanveer Sangha | 49 | 167.0 | 55 | 7.41 | 22.51 |
| 31 | Beau Webster | 39 | 98.0 | 20 | 7.42 | 36.35 |
| 32 | Sandeep Lamichhane | 43 | 159.5 | 48 | 7.42 | 24.71 |
| 33 | Yasir Arafat | 15 | 57.3 | 26 | 7.43 | 16.42 |
| 34 | Ashton Turner | 43 | 58.0 | 18 | 7.45 | 24 |
| 35 | Nathan Coulter-Nile | 74 | 266.3 | 90 | 7.46 | 22.1 |
| 36 | Cameron Boyce | 103 | 366.3 | 111 | 7.54 | 24.89 |
| 37 | Imad Wasim | 17 | 62.1 | 14 | 7.54 | 33.5 |
| 38 | Spencer Johnson | 28 | 104.2 | 41 | 7.55 | 19.22 |
| 39 | Peter Siddle | 103 | 354.0 | 127 | 7.56 | 21.06 |
| 40 | Matt Renshaw | 31 | 56.1 | 14 | 7.57 | 30.36 |
| 41 | Jonathan Cook | 24 | 79.0 | 24 | 7.59 | 25 |
| 42 | Paddy Dooley | 21 | 75.5 | 26 | 7.61 | 22.19 |
| 43 | Mitchell Swepson | 94 | 326.2 | 80 | 7.62 | 31.1 |
| 44 | Matthew Kuhnemann | 61 | 203.5 | 53 | 7.64 | 29.38 |
| 45 | Matthew Short | 69 | 164.0 | 38 | 7.64 | 32.97 |
| 46 | Qais Ahmad | 27 | 100.4 | 32 | 7.67 | 24.13 |
| 47 | Arjun Nair | 30 | 77.0 | 22 | 7.68 | 26.86 |
| 48 | Glenn Maxwell | 94 | 200.5 | 45 | 7.7 | 34.36 |
| 49 | Liam O'Connor | 23 | 76.0 | 15 | 7.71 | 39.07 |
| 50 | Jofra Archer | 27 | 102.3 | 34 | 7.73 | 23.29 |
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. 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.
Inns counts innings in which the player bowled; M counts matches in the playing XI, including ones where the player did not bowl.
- Inns (bowling) — innings in which the player bowled at least one delivery. Matches where they did not bowl are not counted.
- Economy — runs conceded per six legal balls bowled.
- Batting average — runs divided by dismissals. Bowling average — runs conceded divided by wickets. Not-out innings add runs but no dismissal.