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Best strike rate — Indian Premier League
Vaibhav Suryavanshi leads the best strike rate in IPL history with a strike rate of 228.95 (1,028 runs off 449 balls); Priyansh Arya is next with a strike rate of 192.99 (909 runs off 471 balls). The all-time top 50 below is computed from ball-by-ball data of every Indian Premier League match in our dataset and refreshed daily.
Minimum 250 balls faced.
| # | Player | Inns | Runs | Balls | SR | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vaibhav Suryavanshi | 23 | 1028 | 449 | 228.95 | 44.7 |
| 2 | Priyansh Arya | 31 | 909 | 471 | 192.99 | 29.32 |
| 3 | Tim David | 59 | 1151 | 650 | 177.08 | 32.89 |
| 4 | Philip Salt | 40 | 1258 | 721 | 174.48 | 34 |
| 5 | Andre Russell | 115 | 2651 | 1522 | 174.18 | 28.2 |
| 6 | Josh Inglis | 16 | 544 | 314 | 173.25 | 38.86 |
| 7 | Abhishek Sharma | 89 | 2379 | 1389 | 171.27 | 29.37 |
| 8 | Travis Head | 52 | 1556 | 915 | 170.05 | 32.42 |
| 9 | Ashutosh Sharma | 26 | 564 | 334 | 168.86 | 29.68 |
| 10 | Ryan Rickelton | 26 | 836 | 497 | 168.21 | 34.83 |
| 11 | Heinrich Klaasen | 60 | 2104 | 1262 | 166.72 | 42.08 |
| 12 | Sunil Narine | 126 | 1820 | 1101 | 165.3 | 17.5 |
| 13 | Rajat Patidar | 52 | 1612 | 980 | 164.49 | 33.58 |
| 14 | Nicolas Pooran | 101 | 2527 | 1540 | 164.09 | 31.59 |
| 15 | Naman Dhir | 33 | 710 | 433 | 163.97 | 27.31 |
| 16 | Cooper Connolly | 13 | 491 | 301 | 163.12 | 44.64 |
| 17 | Shashank Singh | 42 | 905 | 560 | 161.61 | 36.2 |
| 18 | Will Jacks | 26 | 602 | 379 | 158.84 | 27.36 |
| 19 | Simran Singh | 65 | 1865 | 1189 | 156.85 | 29.6 |
| 20 | Rashid Khan | 74 | 635 | 406 | 156.4 | 13.8 |
| 21 | Virender Sehwag | 104 | 2728 | 1755 | 155.44 | 27.56 |
| 22 | Chris Morris | 51 | 618 | 398 | 155.28 | 22.07 |
| 23 | Liam Livingstone | 49 | 1066 | 687 | 155.17 | 25.38 |
| 24 | Glenn Maxwell | 135 | 2819 | 1817 | 155.15 | 23.89 |
| 25 | Dhruv Jurel | 51 | 1195 | 775 | 154.19 | 31.45 |
| 26 | Rilee Rossouw | 22 | 473 | 308 | 153.57 | 23.65 |
| 27 | Yashasvi Jaiswal | 82 | 2593 | 1697 | 152.8 | 33.68 |
| 28 | Pat Cummins | 53 | 642 | 421 | 152.49 | 19.45 |
| 29 | Jitesh Sharma | 59 | 1107 | 726 | 152.48 | 23.06 |
| 30 | AB de Villiers | 170 | 5162 | 3403 | 151.69 | 39.71 |
| 31 | Tristan Stubbs | 43 | 980 | 648 | 151.23 | 39.2 |
| 32 | Cameron Green | 42 | 1029 | 681 | 151.1 | 38.11 |
| 33 | Jos Buttler | 136 | 4646 | 3103 | 149.73 | 39.71 |
| 34 | Shimron Hetmyer | 86 | 1560 | 1045 | 149.28 | 27.37 |
| 35 | Sai Sudharsan | 57 | 2515 | 1686 | 149.17 | 48.37 |
| 36 | Chris Gayle | 141 | 4965 | 3333 | 148.96 | 39.72 |
| 37 | Abdul Samad | 60 | 857 | 576 | 148.78 | 19.48 |
| 38 | Suryakumar Yadav | 164 | 4581 | 3083 | 148.59 | 33.68 |
| 39 | Mitchell Marsh | 62 | 1855 | 1249 | 148.52 | 30.92 |
| 40 | Shahrukh Khan | 54 | 775 | 524 | 147.9 | 20.39 |
| 41 | Marcus Stoinis | 108 | 2242 | 1520 | 147.5 | 28.74 |
| 42 | Prithvi Shaw | 79 | 1892 | 1283 | 147.47 | 23.95 |
| 43 | Kieron Pollard | 171 | 3412 | 2316 | 147.32 | 28.67 |
| 44 | Rishabh Pant | 136 | 3865 | 2633 | 146.79 | 33.61 |
| 45 | Hardik Pandya | 150 | 2955 | 2020 | 146.29 | 27.88 |
| 46 | Jonny Bairstow | 52 | 1674 | 1146 | 146.07 | 34.88 |
| 47 | Dewald Brevis | 24 | 606 | 415 | 146.02 | 25.25 |
| 48 | Rinku Singh | 62 | 1394 | 955 | 145.97 | 34 |
| 49 | Angkrish Raghuvanshi | 30 | 885 | 608 | 145.56 | 34.04 |
| 50 | Nitish Kumar Reddy | 35 | 787 | 541 | 145.47 | 29.15 |
Coverage & definitionsCricsheet ball-by-ball · Indian Premier 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 batting innings; M counts matches in the playing XI, including ones where the player did not bat.
- 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.
- Batting strike rate — runs per 100 balls faced (wides excluded). Bowling strike rate — balls per wicket.
- Batting average — runs divided by dismissals. Bowling average — runs conceded divided by wickets. Not-out innings add runs but no dismissal.