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Most wickets — Indian Premier League
Yuzvendra Chahal leads the most wickets in IPL history with 233 wickets in 184 innings at an economy of 8.05; Bhuvneshwar Kumar is next with 226 wickets in 206 innings at an economy of 7.71. 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.
| # | Player | Inns | Overs | Wkts | Econ | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yuzvendra Chahal | 184 | 672.5 | 233 | 8.05 | 23.25 |
| 2 | Bhuvneshwar Kumar | 206 | 766.4 | 226 | 7.71 | 26.16 |
| 3 | Sunil Narine | 200 | 775.1 | 207 | 6.79 | 25.42 |
| 4 | Piyush Chawla | 191 | 641.4 | 192 | 7.96 | 26.6 |
| 5 | Jasprit Bumrah | 158 | 605.1 | 187 | 7.34 | 23.75 |
| 6 | Ravichandran Ashwin | 217 | 785.0 | 187 | 7.2 | 30.22 |
| 7 | Dwayne Bravo | 158 | 520.0 | 183 | 8.38 | 23.83 |
| 8 | Ravindra Jadeja | 237 | 709.0 | 180 | 7.71 | 30.36 |
| 9 | Rashid Khan | 153 | 588.2 | 179 | 7.28 | 23.92 |
| 10 | Amit Mishra | 162 | 561.5 | 174 | 7.38 | 23.82 |
| 11 | Lasith Malinga | 122 | 471.1 | 170 | 7.14 | 19.8 |
| 12 | Harshal Patel | 121 | 417.4 | 151 | 8.92 | 24.68 |
| 13 | Sandeep Sharma | 142 | 526.3 | 151 | 8.16 | 28.44 |
| 14 | Harbhajan Singh | 160 | 569.2 | 150 | 7.08 | 26.87 |
| 15 | Kagiso Rabada | 101 | 381.4 | 148 | 8.8 | 22.69 |
| 16 | Trent Boult | 124 | 463.2 | 145 | 8.49 | 27.14 |
| 17 | Mohammed Shami | 132 | 485.2 | 145 | 8.67 | 29.02 |
| 18 | Umesh Yadav | 147 | 508.2 | 144 | 8.49 | 29.98 |
| 19 | Axar Patel | 173 | 596.3 | 139 | 7.43 | 31.88 |
| 20 | Mohit Sharma | 119 | 400.3 | 134 | 8.77 | 26.22 |
| 21 | Mohammed Siraj | 125 | 445.2 | 128 | 8.78 | 30.55 |
| 22 | Andre Russell | 121 | 301.0 | 123 | 9.51 | 23.28 |
| 23 | Shardul Thakur | 109 | 367.0 | 119 | 9.57 | 29.53 |
| 24 | Jaydev Unadkat | 115 | 391.5 | 114 | 8.94 | 30.74 |
| 25 | Kuldeep Yadav | 107 | 381.0 | 112 | 8.29 | 28.21 |
| 26 | Arshdeep Singh | 95 | 338.4 | 111 | 9.19 | 28.03 |
| 27 | Varun Chakravarthy | 94 | 355.4 | 111 | 7.72 | 24.73 |
| 28 | Krunal Pandya | 147 | 450.1 | 107 | 7.57 | 31.87 |
| 29 | Ashish Nehra | 88 | 318.0 | 106 | 7.85 | 23.54 |
| 30 | Vinay Kumar | 104 | 353.3 | 105 | 8.39 | 28.25 |
| 31 | Zaheer Khan | 99 | 366.4 | 102 | 7.59 | 27.27 |
| 32 | Dale Steyn | 95 | 362.4 | 97 | 6.92 | 25.86 |
| 33 | Deepak Chahar | 103 | 344.4 | 96 | 8.3 | 29.81 |
| 34 | Ishant Sharma | 117 | 403.1 | 96 | 8.38 | 35.18 |
| 35 | Chris Morris | 81 | 286.4 | 95 | 8.01 | 24.16 |
| 36 | Avesh Khan | 82 | 294.3 | 93 | 9.28 | 29.4 |
| 37 | Shane Watson | 105 | 338.1 | 92 | 7.93 | 29.15 |
| 38 | Khaleel Ahmed | 76 | 276.1 | 91 | 8.96 | 27.19 |
| 39 | R. P. Singh | 82 | 295.5 | 90 | 7.9 | 25.98 |
| 40 | Prasidh Krishna | 78 | 288.5 | 90 | 8.99 | 28.87 |
| 41 | Praveen Kumar | 119 | 420.4 | 90 | 7.73 | 36.12 |
| 42 | Pragyan Ojha | 90 | 316.3 | 89 | 7.37 | 26.2 |
| 43 | Pat Cummins | 80 | 301.3 | 87 | 8.89 | 30.8 |
| 44 | Dhawal Kulkarni | 92 | 297.5 | 86 | 8.31 | 28.77 |
| 45 | Albie Morkel | 87 | 287.1 | 85 | 8.21 | 27.75 |
| 46 | Jofra Archer | 68 | 263.0 | 84 | 8.22 | 25.73 |
| 47 | Ravi Bishnoi | 85 | 298.1 | 83 | 8.36 | 30.05 |
| 48 | Karn Sharma | 87 | 264.1 | 83 | 8.38 | 26.69 |
| 49 | Imran Tahir | 59 | 219.2 | 82 | 7.76 | 20.77 |
| 50 | Hardik Pandya | 116 | 294.0 | 82 | 9.36 | 33.55 |
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. 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.
- 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.