IPL 2025 · Season leaderboard
Best bowling strike rate
Best bowling strike rate, IPL 2025: Ashwani Kumar — 11.2 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 | Ashwani KumarMI | 11.2 | 123 legal deliveries |
| 2 | JR HazlewoodRCB | 12.0 | 264 legal deliveries |
| 3 | E MalingaSRH | 12.3 | 160 legal deliveries |
| 4 | Noor AhmadCSK | 12.5 | 300 legal deliveries |
| 5 | KV SharmaMI | 12.9 | 90 legal deliveries |
| 6 | JD UnadkatSRH | 13.0 | 143 legal deliveries |
| 7 | Harpreet BrarPBKS | 13.2 | 132 legal deliveries |
| 8 | R Sai KishoreGT | 13.4 | 255 legal deliveries |
| 9 | AD RussellKKR | 13.6 | 109 legal deliveries |
| 10 | M Prasidh KrishnaGT | 14.2 | 354 legal deliveries |
| 11 | HH PandyaMI | 15.0 | 210 legal deliveries |
| 12 | VG AroraKKR | 15.0 | 255 legal deliveries |
| 13 | SN ThakurLSG | 15.7 | 204 legal deliveries |
| 14 | TA BoultMI | 15.7 | 346 legal deliveries |
| 15 | JJ BumrahMI | 15.8 | 284 legal deliveries |
| 16 | MM AliKKR | 16.0 | 96 legal deliveries |
| 17 | A KambojCSK | 16.1 | 129 legal deliveries |
| 18 | KH PandyaRCB | 16.2 | 276 legal deliveries |
| 19 | HV PatelSRH | 16.4 | 263 legal deliveries |
| 20 | MA StarcDC | 16.6 | 233 legal deliveries |
| 21 | Arshdeep SinghPBKS | 16.7 | 350 legal deliveries |
| 22 | YS ChahalPBKS | 16.9 | 270 legal deliveries |
| 23 | CV VarunKKR | 17.6 | 300 legal deliveries |
| 24 | Harshit RanaKKR | 17.6 | 264 legal deliveries |
| 25 | M JansenPBKS | 17.7 | 283 legal deliveries |
All IPL 2025 leaderboards: /season/ipl-2025 · Across all seasons: all-time best bowling strike rate.
Provenance. Derived from the IPL historical SETU snapshot (Cricsheet ball-by-ball, IPL 2025), cricsheet.org under CC BY 3.0. Sample-size floors enforced.