As Indian Premier League (IPL) is starting from 5th April, 2017 and will be celebrated as festival for the cricket fans. But for bowlers it is always difficult to perform in IPL, the format is not all suitable for the bowlers. But some bowlers makes the mark in the tournament and proves they are not behind. Lets see who made the list of the top most wicket taker bowler till the last season ( till IPL 2016):
S. NO. | NAME | NO. OF MATCHES | WICKETS | BEST | AVERAGE | STRIKE RATE |
1 | Lasith Malinga | 98 | 143 | 5/13 | 17.80 | 16.00 |
2 | Amit Mishra | 112 | 124 | 5/17 | 23.53 | 19.40 |
3 | Dwayne Bravo | 106 | 122 | 4/22 | 22.57 | 16.54 |
4 | Piyush Chawla | 123 | 120 | 4/17 | 25.68 | 20.35 |
5 | Harbhajan Singh | 125 | 119 | 5/18 | 26.21 | 22.46 |
6 | Vinay Kumar | 102 | 101 | 4/40 | 28.41 | 20.59 |
7 | Ravichandra Ashwin | 11 | 100 | 4/34 | 25.00 | 22.90 |
8 | Ashish Nehra | 82 | 98 | 4/10 | 23.44 | 18.17 |
9 | Dale Steyn | 90 | 92 | 3/8 | 25.06 | 22.36 |
10 | Zaheer Khan | 89 | 92 | 4/17 | 26.83 | 21.29 |
11 | Rudra Pratap Singh | 82 | 90 | 4/22 | 25.97 | 19.72 |
12 | Pragyan Ojha | 92 | 89 | 3/11 | 26.20 | 21.33 |
13 | Sunil Narine | 66 | 85 | 5/19 | 19.04 | 18.49 |
14 | Bhuvneshwar Kumar | 76 | 85 | 4/14 | 23.17 | 19.61 |
15 | Albie Morkel | 91 | 85 | 4/32 | 27.75 | 20.27 |
16 | Praveen Kumar | 113 | 84 | 3/18 | 36.90 | 28.86 |
17 | Shane Watson | 94 | 81 | 4/29 | 26.98 | 20.98 |
18 | Irfan Pathan | 102 | 80 | 3/24 | 32.78 | 25.38 |
19 | Ravindra Jadeja | 126 | 77 | 5/16 | 28.01 | 22.03 |
20 | Morne Morkel | 70 | 77 | 4/20 | 27.12 | 21.15 |