IPL 2024 · Season leaderboard
Best bowling strike rate
Best bowling strike rate, IPL 2024: AD Russell — 9.3 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 | AD RussellKKR | 9.3 | 176 legal deliveries |
| 2 | M PathiranaCSK | 10.2 | 132 legal deliveries |
| 3 | HV PatelPBKS | 12.3 | 294 legal deliveries |
| 4 | Mukesh KumarDC | 12.5 | 213 legal deliveries |
| 5 | R Sai KishoreGT | 12.9 | 90 legal deliveries |
| 6 | Harshit RanaKKR | 13.3 | 253 legal deliveries |
| 7 | CV VarunKKR | 14.3 | 300 legal deliveries |
| 8 | N BurgerRR | 14.6 | 102 legal deliveries |
| 9 | Mustafizur RahmanCSK | 14.7 | 206 legal deliveries |
| 10 | MA StarcKKR | 14.8 | 251 legal deliveries |
| 11 | Swapnil SinghRCB | 15.0 | 90 legal deliveries |
| 12 | SM CurranPBKS | 15.4 | 246 legal deliveries |
| 13 | G CoetzeeMI | 15.5 | 201 legal deliveries |
| 14 | JJ BumrahMI | 15.6 | 311 legal deliveries |
| 15 | Naveen-ul-HaqLSG | 15.6 | 219 legal deliveries |
| 16 | UT YadavGT | 15.8 | 126 legal deliveries |
| 17 | Arshdeep SinghPBKS | 15.9 | 302 legal deliveries |
| 18 | GJ MaxwellRCB | 16.0 | 96 legal deliveries |
| 19 | LH FergusonRCB | 16.0 | 144 legal deliveries |
| 20 | Kuldeep YadavDC | 16.1 | 258 legal deliveries |
| 21 | I SharmaDC | 16.2 | 162 legal deliveries |
| 22 | PP ChawlaMI | 16.2 | 210 legal deliveries |
| 23 | T NatarajanSRH | 16.2 | 308 legal deliveries |
| 24 | Rasikh SalamDC | 16.3 | 147 legal deliveries |
| 25 | VG AroraKKR | 16.4 | 180 legal deliveries |
All IPL 2024 leaderboards: /season/ipl-2024 · Across all seasons: all-time best bowling strike rate.
Provenance. Derived from the IPL historical SETU snapshot (Cricsheet ball-by-ball, IPL 2024), cricsheet.org under CC BY 3.0. Sample-size floors enforced.