Top 10 Best Bowling Average in IPL History

IPL Best Bowling Stats

For a bowler to strive in T-20 cricket, variations are handy. The bowlers must have a host of variations to take those crucial wickets. In a game where batsmen have shown no mercy to the bowlers, great bowlers from around the world also have often come out triumph and have managed to pick up wickets, boasting of good averages even in T-20 format.

South Africa’s bowler Kagiso Rabada has the best bowling average in IPL with 17.93, having played as many as twenty matches till now. Doug Bollinger and Dimitri Mascarenhas are second and third in the list with an average of 18.72 and 18.73 respectively. Sri Lanka’s legendary bowler Lasith Malinga having played 122 matches has picked up 170 wickets in his IPL career with a stellar average of 19.80. He ranks fourth in the list.

Rank	Player	Mat	Inns	Over	Runs	Wkts	Avg	Econ	SR
1	Kagiso Rabada	18	18	68.2	556	31	17.93	8.13	13.22
2	Doug Bollinger	27	27	96	693	37	18.72	7.21	15.56
3	Dimitri Mascarenhas	13	13	51.2	356	19	18.73	6.93	16.21
4	MF Maharoof	20	20	70	520	27	19.25	7.42	15.55
5	Shreyas Gopal	31	30	98.1	737	38	19.39	7.5	15.5
6	Lasith Malinga	122	122	471.1	3,366	170	19.8	7.14	16.62
7	Nathan Coulter-Nile	26	25	93.5	719	36	19.97	7.66	15.63
8	Mitchell Starc	27	26	96.4	693	34	20.38	7.16	17.05
9	Imran Tahir	55	55	204.2	1,611	79	20.39	7.88	15.51
10	Mitchell Marsh	20	18	52.3	414	20	20.7	7.88	15.75