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Best bowling average — Women's Big Bash League
Sophie Day leads the best bowling average in WBBL history with a bowling average of 16.97 from 77 wickets; Sarah Glenn is next with a bowling average of 17.69 from 29 wickets. The all-time top 50 below is computed from ball-by-ball data of every Women's Big Bash League match in our dataset and refreshed daily.
Minimum 20 wickets.
| # | Player | Inns | Wkts | Avg | Econ | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sophie Day | 67 | 77 | 16.97 | 6.95 | 14.65 |
| 2 | Sarah Glenn | 21 | 29 | 17.69 | 6.72 | 15.79 |
| 3 | Harmanpreet Kaur | 35 | 36 | 17.97 | 7.54 | 14.31 |
| 4 | Sarah Aley | 56 | 60 | 18.77 | 6.64 | 16.97 |
| 5 | Alice Capsey | 43 | 43 | 18.81 | 7.3 | 15.47 |
| 6 | Erin Burns | 40 | 33 | 18.82 | 7.03 | 16.06 |
| 7 | Lilly Mills | 55 | 55 | 19.09 | 7.4 | 15.47 |
| 8 | Jess Jonassen | 131 | 163 | 19.34 | 6.85 | 16.93 |
| 9 | Hannah Darlington | 68 | 91 | 19.47 | 7.26 | 16.09 |
| 10 | Stafanie Taylor | 34 | 33 | 19.48 | 6.91 | 16.91 |
| 11 | Katherine Brunt | 39 | 42 | 19.5 | 5.53 | 21.14 |
| 12 | Megan Schutt | 122 | 138 | 20.09 | 6.11 | 19.72 |
| 13 | Molly Strano | 126 | 142 | 20.13 | 6.8 | 17.77 |
| 14 | Amanda-Jade Wellington | 130 | 146 | 20.25 | 6.83 | 17.78 |
| 15 | Amy Satterthwaite | 31 | 29 | 20.31 | 7 | 17.41 |
| 16 | Amelia Kerr | 69 | 83 | 20.41 | 6.73 | 18.19 |
| 17 | Alana King | 119 | 133 | 20.45 | 6.88 | 17.83 |
| 18 | Lucy Hamilton | 19 | 20 | 20.6 | 6.75 | 18.3 |
| 19 | Heather Graham | 125 | 147 | 20.64 | 7.2 | 17.19 |
| 20 | Anesu Mushangwe | 23 | 26 | 20.69 | 7.11 | 17.46 |
| 21 | Marizanne Kapp | 116 | 120 | 20.82 | 5.89 | 21.21 |
| 22 | Darcie Brown | 59 | 66 | 20.97 | 6.5 | 19.36 |
| 23 | Kristen Beams | 33 | 30 | 21.7 | 5.98 | 21.77 |
| 24 | Sophie Ecclestone | 31 | 37 | 21.7 | 6.98 | 18.65 |
| 25 | Kim Garth | 91 | 88 | 21.72 | 6.42 | 20.31 |
| 26 | Hayley Matthews | 70 | 76 | 21.87 | 6.9 | 19.01 |
| 27 | Chloe Ainsworth | 36 | 40 | 22.3 | 6.97 | 19.2 |
| 28 | Ashleigh Gardner | 115 | 113 | 22.31 | 7.21 | 18.58 |
| 29 | Rene Farrell | 40 | 47 | 22.32 | 6.87 | 19.49 |
| 30 | Sophie Devine | 115 | 114 | 22.56 | 7.56 | 17.9 |
| 31 | Jemma Barsby | 103 | 80 | 22.6 | 6.81 | 19.93 |
| 32 | Nicola Hancock | 105 | 111 | 22.99 | 7.56 | 18.24 |
| 33 | Maisy Gibson | 71 | 63 | 23 | 7.18 | 19.22 |
| 34 | Hayley Jensen | 40 | 34 | 23.26 | 6.72 | 20.76 |
| 35 | Samantha Bates | 117 | 113 | 23.26 | 6.23 | 22.4 |
| 36 | Delissa Kimmince | 63 | 62 | 23.27 | 7.04 | 19.84 |
| 37 | Sarah Coyte | 113 | 107 | 23.42 | 7.09 | 19.82 |
| 38 | Lauren Smith | 108 | 79 | 23.44 | 6.91 | 20.35 |
| 39 | Georgia Wareham | 79 | 76 | 23.45 | 6.85 | 20.55 |
| 40 | Lauren Cheatle | 79 | 81 | 23.46 | 7.32 | 19.22 |
| 41 | Nicola Carey | 116 | 120 | 23.48 | 7.49 | 18.8 |
| 42 | Annabel Sutherland | 100 | 98 | 23.49 | 7.34 | 19.19 |
| 43 | Linsey Smith | 34 | 33 | 23.58 | 6.67 | 21.21 |
| 44 | Emma King | 40 | 34 | 23.65 | 6.26 | 22.65 |
| 45 | Nat Sciver-Brunt | 53 | 50 | 23.68 | 7.06 | 20.12 |
| 46 | Sophie Molineux | 89 | 87 | 23.75 | 6.82 | 20.89 |
| 47 | Sammy-Jo Johnson | 108 | 104 | 23.79 | 7.13 | 20.03 |
| 48 | Chamari Atapattu | 37 | 31 | 23.84 | 7.15 | 20 |
| 49 | Dane van Niekerk | 69 | 60 | 23.9 | 6.58 | 21.8 |
| 50 | Sasha Moloney | 58 | 43 | 24.53 | 7.24 | 20.33 |
Coverage & definitionsCricsheet ball-by-ball · Women's 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.