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Best strike rate — Major League Cricket
Mitchell Owen leads the best strike rate in MLC history with a strike rate of 196.29 (740 runs off 377 balls); Finn Allen is next with a strike rate of 189.92 (904 runs off 476 balls). The all-time top 32 below is computed from ball-by-ball data of every Major League Cricket match in our dataset and refreshed daily.
Minimum 250 balls faced.
| # | Player | Inns | Runs | Balls | SR | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mitchell Owen | 24 | 740 | 377 | 196.29 | 30.83 |
| 2 | Finn Allen | 35 | 904 | 476 | 189.92 | 25.83 |
| 3 | LG Pretorius | 12 | 465 | 264 | 176.14 | 46.5 |
| 4 | Shimron Hetmyer | 20 | 563 | 331 | 170.09 | 40.21 |
| 5 | Glenn Maxwell | 21 | 444 | 265 | 167.55 | 27.75 |
| 6 | Rachin Ravindra | 24 | 491 | 298 | 164.77 | 20.46 |
| 7 | Faf du Plessis | 34 | 1226 | 751 | 163.25 | 38.31 |
| 8 | Kieron Pollard | 35 | 809 | 519 | 155.88 | 32.36 |
| 9 | Heinrich Klaasen | 22 | 474 | 306 | 154.9 | 24.95 |
| 10 | Hasan Khan | 28 | 609 | 397 | 153.4 | 30.45 |
| 11 | Matthew Short | 31 | 1195 | 785 | 152.23 | 44.26 |
| 12 | MW Tromp | 14 | 385 | 256 | 150.39 | 29.62 |
| 13 | Andre Fletcher | 19 | 626 | 428 | 146.26 | 32.95 |
| 14 | Andre Russell | 29 | 601 | 411 | 146.23 | 28.62 |
| 15 | Andries Gous | 37 | 1058 | 724 | 146.13 | 35.27 |
| 16 | Nicolas Pooran | 39 | 1352 | 930 | 145.38 | 43.61 |
| 17 | Tim Seifert | 16 | 493 | 347 | 142.07 | 32.87 |
| 18 | Quinton de Kock | 36 | 1007 | 712 | 141.43 | 29.62 |
| 19 | Steve Smith | 22 | 735 | 527 | 139.47 | 43.24 |
| 20 | Sanjay Krishnamurthi | 29 | 615 | 441 | 139.46 | 25.63 |
| 21 | Obus Pienaar | 26 | 392 | 287 | 136.59 | 39.2 |
| 22 | Devon Conway | 19 | 649 | 485 | 133.81 | 38.18 |
| 23 | Shubham Ranjane | 25 | 630 | 486 | 129.63 | 39.38 |
| 24 | Shayan Jahangir | 29 | 619 | 483 | 128.16 | 21.34 |
| 25 | Saiteja Mukkamalla | 20 | 446 | 350 | 127.43 | 22.3 |
| 26 | Colin Munro | 11 | 438 | 346 | 126.59 | 48.67 |
| 27 | Monank Patel | 36 | 811 | 651 | 124.58 | 22.53 |
| 28 | Marcus Stoinis | 29 | 433 | 353 | 122.66 | 16.65 |
| 29 | Unmukt Chand | 24 | 573 | 489 | 117.18 | 24.91 |
| 30 | Corey Anderson | 23 | 391 | 340 | 115 | 24.44 |
| 31 | Milind Kumar | 23 | 331 | 294 | 112.59 | 17.42 |
| 32 | Shehan Jayasuriya | 13 | 292 | 267 | 109.36 | 29.2 |
Coverage & definitionsCricsheet ball-by-ball · Major League Cricket · 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 batting innings. The dataset cannot count match appearances, so there is no separate matches column.
- 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 this is also the number of matches they batted in.
- 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.