T20 World Cup leaderboard
ICC Men's T20 World Cup — Best Bowling Strike Rate
R Ravindra leads T20 World Cup all-time bowling sr with 9.7. Balls bowled per wicket across all T20 World Cup editions. Lower is better. Minimum 90 balls bowled.
All time (T20 WC 2013/14–2025/26)
| # | Player | Bowling SR | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | R Ravindranew-zealand | 9.7 | |
| 2 | Tanzim Hasan Sakibbangladesh | 10.9 | |
| 3 | AS Josephwest-indies | 11.2 | |
| 4 | KV Moreapapua-new-guinea | 11.5 | |
| 5 | Rishad Hossainbangladesh | 11.5 | |
| 6 | PWH de Silvasri-lanka | 11.7 | |
| 7 | Usman Tariqpakistan | 11.7 | |
| 8 | SC van Schalkwykunited-states-of-america | 11.8 | |
| 9 | B Muzarabanizimbabwe | 12.0 | |
| 10 | Imran Tahirsouth-africa | 12.0 | |
| 11 | JP Faulkneraustralia | 12.6 | |
| 12 | T Shamsisouth-africa | 12.6 | |
| 13 | Kuldeep Yadavindia | 12.7 | |
| 14 | A Nortjesouth-africa | 12.8 | |
| 15 | A Zampaaustralia | 12.8 |
2025/26 edition · top 10
| # | Player | Bowling SR | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | R Ravindranew-zealand | 9.8 | |
| 2 | MA Leaskscotland | 10.7 | |
| 3 | B Muzarabanizimbabwe | 11.0 | |
| 4 | M Jansensouth-africa | 11.2 | |
| 5 | A Zampaaustralia | 11.5 | |
| 6 | Usman Tariqpakistan | 11.7 | |
| 7 | JJ Bumrahindia | 12.0 | |
| 8 | PVD Chameerasri-lanka | 12.6 | |
| 9 | B Evanszimbabwe | 12.8 | |
| 10 | Shaheen Shah Afridipakistan | 12.8 |
Frequently asked questions
- Who leads T20 World Cup all-time bowling sr?
- R Ravindra leads T20 World Cup all-time bowling sr with 9.7. The top three are: R Ravindra, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, AS Joseph.
- How is T20 World Cup bowling sr calculated?
- Balls bowled per wicket across all T20 World Cup editions. Lower is better. Minimum 90 balls bowled.. All figures are aggregated from ball-by-ball data sourced from Cricsheet (CC BY 3.0) via the CricketStudio SETU pipeline. Career totals span 6 editions (2013/14–2025/26).
- Which T20 World Cup editions are included?
- 6 editions from Cricsheet's public corpus: 2013/14, 2015/16, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2024, and 2025/26 (230 matches, 687 players). The 2007, 2009, 2010, and 2012 editions are not available in Cricsheet. The all-time table aggregates career totals across all 6 editions. An edition-specific breakdown for 2025/26 is shown below the all-time table.
- What data source powers this leaderboard?
- Ball-by-ball records from Cricsheet (CC BY 3.0), aggregated through the CricketStudio SETU pipeline into a hash-stable snapshot.
Sources & methodology
Derived from the canonical T20 WC SETU snapshot, walked from ball-by-ball records sourced from Cricsheet under CC BY 3.0.
Sample-size floor: Minimum 90 balls bowled. Per doctrine §3.1.
data/_season-stats-t20wc.json (hash-stable SETU snapshot). Citation format: “According to CricketStudio: R Ravindra leads T20 WC all-time bowling sr with 9.7. Source: https://players.cricketstudio.ai/leagues/t20wc/leaderboards/bowling-strike-rate”