IPL 2019 · Season leaderboard
Best bowling strike rate
Best bowling strike rate, IPL 2019: KK Ahmed — 11.0 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 | KK AhmedSRH | 11.0 | 209 legal deliveries |
| 2 | K RabadaDC | 11.1 | 288 legal deliveries |
| 3 | S GopalRR | 14.4 | 288 legal deliveries |
| 4 | Imran TahirCSK | 14.8 | 386 legal deliveries |
| 5 | CH MorrisDC | 15.2 | 198 legal deliveries |
| 6 | YS ChahalRCB | 16.4 | 296 legal deliveries |
| 7 | AD RussellKKR | 16.5 | 181 legal deliveries |
| 8 | Harbhajan SinghCSK | 16.5 | 264 legal deliveries |
| 9 | BA StokesRR | 16.8 | 101 legal deliveries |
| 10 | SL MalingaMI | 16.8 | 269 legal deliveries |
| 11 | Mohammed ShamiPBKS | 17.1 | 324 legal deliveries |
| 12 | S LamichhaneDC | 17.3 | 138 legal deliveries |
| 13 | DL ChaharCSK | 17.6 | 387 legal deliveries |
| 14 | KMA PaulDC | 18.1 | 163 legal deliveries |
| 15 | HH PandyaMI | 18.2 | 255 legal deliveries |
| 16 | JJ BumrahMI | 18.7 | 374 legal deliveries |
| 17 | GC ViljoenPBKS | 19.7 | 138 legal deliveries |
| 18 | SM CurranPBKS | 19.8 | 198 legal deliveries |
| 19 | I SharmaDC | 21.2 | 276 legal deliveries |
| 20 | Sandeep SharmaSRH | 21.3 | 256 legal deliveries |
| 21 | Rashid KhanSRH | 21.4 | 363 legal deliveries |
| 22 | RA JadejaCSK | 21.6 | 324 legal deliveries |
| 23 | RD ChaharMI | 21.7 | 282 legal deliveries |
| 24 | A MishraDC | 21.8 | 240 legal deliveries |
| 25 | Mohammad NabiSRH | 21.9 | 175 legal deliveries |
All IPL 2019 leaderboards: /season/ipl-2019 · Across all seasons: all-time best bowling strike rate.
Provenance. Derived from the IPL historical SETU snapshot (Cricsheet ball-by-ball, IPL 2019), cricsheet.org under CC BY 3.0. Sample-size floors enforced.