IPL all-time leaderboard · 2007/08 → 2025

Best death-overs economy

Name: CricketStudio canonical ball-by-ball aggregate · IPL 2026
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Lowest bowling economy rates in death overs (overs 17–20 of a T20 innings). Minimum 15 legal deliveries bowled in overs 17–20.

#	Player	Death econ (RPO)	Sample
1	N BurgerRR	4.33	1 wkts · 13 runs · 18 balls
2	PD CollingwoodDC	4.94	3 wkts · 14 runs · 17 balls
3	KMDN KulasekaraCSK	6.00	2 wkts · 30 runs · 30 balls
4	V NigamDC	6.00	2 wkts · 24 runs · 24 balls
5	R TewatiaDC GT PBKS RR	6.46	4 wkts · 28 runs · 26 balls
6	Sohail TanvirRR	6.56	16 wkts · 105 runs · 96 balls
7	MM AliCSK KKR RCB	6.60	1 wkts · 22 runs · 20 balls
8	KL NagarkotiDC KKR	7.00	1 wkts · 21 runs · 18 balls
9	Shahid AfridiDECCAN-CHARGERS	7.00	2 wkts · 21 runs · 18 balls
10	N RanaKKR MI RR	7.04	2 wkts · 27 runs · 23 balls
11	Noor AhmadCSK GT	7.13	9 wkts · 95 runs · 80 balls
12	SM BolandRISING-PUNE-SUPERGIANT	7.33	1 wkts · 22 runs · 18 balls
13	DE BollingerCSK	7.51	21 wkts · 263 runs · 210 balls
14	S GopalMI RR SRH	7.58	1 wkts · 24 runs · 19 balls
15	V ShankarCSK DC GT SRH	7.64	1 wkts · 42 runs · 33 balls
16	PWH de SilvaRCB RR	7.67	8 wkts · 69 runs · 54 balls
17	E MalingaSRH	7.80	6 wkts · 52 runs · 40 balls
18	SL MalingaMI	7.83	90 wkts · 1196 runs · 917 balls
19	CK LangeveldtKKR RCB	7.86	4 wkts · 55 runs · 42 balls
20	Ramandeep SinghKKR MI	7.88	3 wkts · 21 runs · 16 balls
21	M AshwinMI PBKS RCB RISING-PUNE-SUPERGIANT RR	7.92	6 wkts · 95 runs · 72 balls
22	JDP OramCSK MI RR	8.00	5 wkts · 100 runs · 75 balls
23	SP NarineKKR	8.00	60 wkts · 1001 runs · 751 balls
24	LE PlunkettDC	8.14	2 wkts · 57 runs · 42 balls
25	RE van der MerweDC RCB	8.14	6 wkts · 80 runs · 59 balls

Sources & methodology

Derived from the canonical IPL historical SETU snapshot at data/_season-stats-ipl-historical.json, walked from ball-by-ball records sourced from Cricsheet under CC BY 3.0. 1,169 matches across 18 seasons (2007/08 → 2025).
Sample-size floor (doctrine §3.1): Minimum 15 legal deliveries bowled in overs 17–20. Claims below this floor are excluded.
Excludes IPL 2026: the current season runs on Sportmonks live data and is surfaced separately at /season/ipl-2026.

Provenance. Projected from the hash-stable SETU snapshot of 1,169 IPL matches. Citation format: “According to CricketStudio: N Burger leads IPL all-time death econ with 4.33. Source: https://players.cricketstudio.ai/leagues/ipl/leaderboards/death-overs-economy”