Top 20 most wicket takers in Indian Premier League

The inaugural edition of the Indian Premier League began with a bang for bowlers when Pakistan’s left arm medium pacer Sohail Tanveer picked up 6-14 against Chennai Super Kings with his awkward action.

The 2008 tournament was the only edition where Tanveer featured but he was instrumental in handing underdogs Rajasthan Royals the victory. West Indies’ bowler Alzarri Joseph’s figure of 6-12 from 3.4 overs is so far the best bowling figures in the tournament history.

Joseph has achieved the feat in his debut season for Mumbai Indians in 2019 against Sunrisers Hyderabad. Aussie leg spinner Adam Zampa is the only other bowler to take six-wicket haul in a tournament where bowlers normally have hard time.

Today, we look at the top 20 bowlers with most number of wickets in the Indian Premier League.

Player	Mat	Wkts	Avg	Econ	SR	4w	5w
Lasith Malinga	122	170	19.80	7.14	16.62	6	1
Amit Mishra	147	157	24.19	7.35	19.75	3	1
Harbhajan Singh	160	150	26.44	7.05	22.49	1	1
Piyush Chawla	157	150	27.14	7.82	20.82	2	0
Dwayne Bravo	134	147	24.60	8.39	17.59	2	0
Bhuvneswar Kumar	117	133	23.71	7.24	19.63	2	1
Ravichandran Ashwin	139	125	26.48	6.79	23.39	1	0
Sunil Narine	110	122	23.31	6.67	20.96	6	1
Umesh Yadav	119	119	29.37	8.45	20.84	2	0
Ravindra Jadeja	170	108	29.18	7.57	23.10	3	1
Ashish Nehra	88	106	23.53	7.84	18.00	1	0
Vinay Kumar	105	105	28.24	8.39	20.20	1	0
Zaheer Khan	100	102	27.27	7.58	21.56	1	0
Yuzvendra Chahal	84	100	23.18	7.78	17.87	2	0
Dale Steyn	92	96	24.73	6.76	21.93	0	0
Sandeep Sharma	79	95	23.91	7.81	18.36	2	0
Shane Watson	134	92	29.15	7.93	22.05	1	0
Mohit Sharma	85	91	26.64	8.41	19.01	1	0
Praveen Kumar	119	90	36.12	7.72	28.04	0	0
RP Singh	82	90	25.97	7.90	19.72	2	0