Maiden Overs Bowled in the IPL History
When you have 20 overs to bat and post a mammoth total to defend every over is crucial. It comprises 5% of total resources and facing a maiden over means a loss in momentum and bat swing.
Bowling a maiden over is an unbelievable feat in T 20 format especially when the batsmen are after you like a beast. To a bowl, a maiden over the bowler needs different variations and the ability to play the batsmen’s mind.
Usually, the pacers leak a lot of runs, but in IPL it is a different ball game altogether. The pacers are the ones, who have bowled most maiden overs in the history of the IPL.
Here is a list of top bowlers with most maiden overs in the IPL history.
POS | Player | Matches | Inns | Overs | Runs | Wkts | Maiden | Avg | Econ |
1 | PraveenKumar | 119 | 119 | 420.4 | 3,251 | 90 | 14 | 36.12 | 7.72 |
2 | Irfan Pathan | 103 | 101 | 340.3 | 2,649 | 80 | 10 | 33.11 | 7.77 |
3 | Dhawal Kulkarni | 90 | 90 | 290.5 | 2,404 | 86 | 8 | 27.95 | 8.26 |
4 | Lasith Malinga | 122 | 122 | 471.1 | 3,366 | 170 | 8 | 19.8 | 7.14 |
5 | Sandeep Sharma | 79 | 79 | 290.5 | 2,272 | 95 | 8 | 23.91 | 7.81 |
6 | Bhuvneshwar Kumar | 117 | 117 | 435.2 | 3,154 | 133 | 8 | 23.71 | 7.24 |
7 | Dale Steyn | 92 | 92 | 351 | 2,375 | 96 | 7 | 24.73 | 6.76 |
8 | Amit Mishra | 147 | 147 | 516.5 | 3,799 | 157 | 6 | 24.19 | 7.35 |
9 | Harbhajan Singh | 160 | 157 | 562.2 | 3,967 | 150 | 6 | 26.44 | 7.05 |
10 | Munaf Patel | 63 | 63 | 225.5 | 1,698 | 74 | 5 | 22.94 | 7.51 |
11 | Zaheer Khan | 100 | 99 | 366.4 | 2,782 | 102 | 5 | 27.27 | 7.58 |
12 | Ravi Rampaul | 12 | 12 | 43.4 | 298 | 14 | 4 | 21.28 | 6.82 |
13 | Ishant Sharma | 89 | 89 | 318.5 | 2,580 | 72 | 4 | 35.83 | 8.09 |
14 | Shanthakumaran Sreesanth | 44 | 44 | 146.4 | 1,194 | 40 | 4 | 29.85 | 8.14 |
15 | Ravichandran Ashwin | 139 | 136 | 487.2 | 3,310 | 125 | 4 | 26.48 | 6.79 |
16 | Jasprit Bumrah | 77 | 77 | 288.4 | 2,181 | 82 | 4 | 26.59 | 7.55 |
17 | Ishwar Pandey | 25 | 24 | 77 | 591 | 18 | 4 | 32.83 | 7.67 |
18 | James Faulkner | 60 | 60 | 204.3 | 1,778 | 59 | 4 | 30.13 | 8.69 |
19 | Deepak Chahar | 34 | 34 | 114.4 | 875 | 33 | 3 | 26.51 | 7.63 |
20 | Jaydev Unadkat | 73 | 72 | 251 | 2,192 | 77 | 3 | 28.46 | 8.73 |
21 | Sunil Narine | 110 | 109 | 426.2 | 2,845 | 122 | 3 | 23.31 | 6.67 |
22 | Doug Bollinger | 27 | 27 | 96 | 693 | 37 | 3 | 18.72 | 7.21 |
23 | Morne Morkel | 70 | 70 | 271.3 | 2,089 | 77 | 3 | 27.12 | 7.69 |
24 | Jacques Kallis | 98 | 89 | 290.2 | 2,293 | 65 | 3 | 35.27 | 7.89 |
25 | Albie Morkel | 91 | 87 | 287.1 | 2,355 | 85 | 3 | 27.7 | 8.2 |
26 | Ashok Dinda | 78 | 75 | 251.4 | 2,071 | 68 | 3 | 30.45 | 8.22 |
27 | Umesh Yadav | 119 | 118 | 413.2 | 3,496 | 119 | 3 | 29.37 | 8.45 |
28 | Brett Lee | 38 | 38 | 145.5 | 1,095 | 25 | 3 | 43.8 | 7.5 |
29 | Ryan Harris | 37 | 37 | 138.4 | 1,047 | 45 | 3 | 23.26 | 7.55 |
30 | Shane Watson | 134 | 105 | 338.1 | 2,682 | 92 | 3 | 29.15 | 7.93 |
31 | Manpreet Gony | 44 | 44 | 148 | 1,287 | 37 | 3 | 34.78 | 8.69 |
32 | Yuzvendra Chahal | 84 | 83 | 297.5 | 2,318 | 100 | 3 | 23.18 | 7.78 |
33 | Axar Patel | 82 | 81 | 285.3 | 2,129 | 71 | 2 | 29.98 | 7.45 |
34 | Jofra Archer | 21 | 21 | 81.5 | 616 | 26 | 2 | 23.69 | 7.52 |
35 | Chaminda Vaas | 13 | 13 | 47 | 355 | 18 | 2 | 19.72 | 7.55 |
36 | Siddharth Trivedi | 76 | 75 | 251 | 1,904 | 65 | 2 | 29.29 | 7.58 |
37 | RP Singh | 82 | 82 | 295.5 | 2,338 | 90 | 2 | 25.97 | 7.9 |
38 | Ben Stokes | 34 | 30 | 97.5 | 808 | 26 | 2 | 31.07 | 8.25 |
39 | Parvinder Awana | 33 | 33 | 124.3 | 1,029 | 39 | 2 | 26.38 | 8.26 |
40 | Dwayne Bravo | 134 | 131 | 431 | 3,617 | 147 | 2 | 24.6 | 8.39 |
41 | Aniket Choudhary | 5 | 5 | 16.5 | 144 | 5 | 2 | 28.8 | 8.55 |
42 | Varun Aaron | 47 | 45 | 152.4 | 1,335 | 42 | 2 | 31.78 | 8.74 |
43 | Lungi Ngidi | 7 | 7 | 26 | 156 | 11 | 2 | 14.18 | 6 |
44 | Rashid Khan | 46 | 46 | 182 | 1,193 | 55 | 2 | 21.69 | 6.55 |
45 | Glenn McGrath | 14 | 14 | 54 | 357 | 12 | 2 | 29.75 | 6.61 |
46 | Ben Hilfenhaus | 17 | 17 | 62 | 479 | 22 | 2 | 21.77 | 7.72 |
47 | Alfonso Thomas | 15 | 15 | 52.3 | 406 | 14 | 2 | 29 | 7.73 |
48 | Ashish Nehra | 88 | 88 | 318 | 2,495 | 106 | 2 | 23.53 | 7.84 |
49 | Lakshmipathy Balaji | 73 | 73 | 251.5 | 2,028 | 76 | 2 | 26.68 | 8.05 |
50 | Mitchell Johnson | 54 | 54 | 205.2 | 1,702 | 61 | 2 | 27.9 | 8.28 |
*Last Updated 18 December, 2019