IPL 2014 · Season leaderboard
Best bowling strike rate
Best bowling strike rate, IPL 2014: Karanveer Singh — 10.9 Balls per wicket.
Fewest balls per wicket across IPL career. Lower is better — measures how quickly a bowler takes wickets.
| # | Player | Balls per wicket | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Karanveer SinghPBKS | 10.9 | 120 legal deliveries |
| 2 | A NehraCSK | 11.3 | 90 legal deliveries |
| 3 | Sandeep SharmaPBKS | 13.4 | 241 legal deliveries |
| 4 | VR AaronRCB | 13.8 | 220 legal deliveries |
| 5 | Imran TahirDC | 13.9 | 125 legal deliveries |
| 6 | MM SharmaCSK | 14.0 | 323 legal deliveries |
| 7 | SL MalingaMI | 14.7 | 235 legal deliveries |
| 8 | B KumarSRH | 16.0 | 319 legal deliveries |
| 9 | PP ChawlaKKR | 16.9 | 237 legal deliveries |
| 10 | L BalajiPBKS | 17.0 | 204 legal deliveries |
| 11 | RA JadejaCSK | 17.2 | 326 legal deliveries |
| 12 | KW RichardsonRR | 18.0 | 162 legal deliveries |
| 13 | SR WatsonRR | 18.0 | 126 legal deliveries |
| 14 | SP NarineKKR | 18.6 | 390 legal deliveries |
| 15 | MG JohnsonPBKS | 18.9 | 321 legal deliveries |
| 16 | R BhatiaRR | 19.0 | 228 legal deliveries |
| 17 | PV TambeRR | 19.6 | 294 legal deliveries |
| 18 | P AwanaPBKS | 20.1 | 141 legal deliveries |
| 19 | KV SharmaSRH | 20.3 | 304 legal deliveries |
| 20 | JD UnadkatDC | 20.8 | 187 legal deliveries |
| 21 | BW HilfenhausCSK | 21.0 | 168 legal deliveries |
| 22 | R DhawanPBKS | 21.8 | 284 legal deliveries |
| 23 | R AshwinCSK | 22.4 | 359 legal deliveries |
| 24 | MA StarcRCB | 23.0 | 322 legal deliveries |
| 25 | AR PatelPBKS | 23.3 | 396 legal deliveries |
All IPL 2014 leaderboards: /season/ipl-2014 · Across all seasons: all-time best bowling strike rate.
Provenance. Derived from the IPL historical SETU snapshot (Cricsheet ball-by-ball, IPL 2014), cricsheet.org under CC BY 3.0. Sample-size floors enforced.