Top 10 Most Number of Maiden overs Bowled in IPL History

When you have only 20 overs to bat, every over and every ball becomes important. Every single over-represents 5% of your total resources. Not scoring from one over means you will be utilizing only 95% of the allotted resources. Thus bowling a maiden over in T20 cricket is tougher than any other format.

At the Indian Premier League, we have the best of the bests competing against each other. In such conditions, bowling six dot balls in a row is no mean feat. In an IPL season, more fifties are scored than the number of maiden overs bowled.

The best chance of bowling a maiden is in the opening overs when the batsmen may not take too many risks and try to consolidate. The top seven in the all-time list of bowling most maidens in the IPL are all fast bowlers.

Spinners languish at the bottom. Here is the countdown of eleven bowlers who have bowled the most maiden overs in IPL history.

Rank	Player	Mat	Inns	Over	Runs	Wkts	Maid	Avg	Econ	SR
1	Praveen Kumar	119	119	420.4	3,251	90	14	36.12	7.72	28.04
2	Irfan Pathan	103	101	340.3	2,649	80	10	33.11	7.77	25.53
3	Dhawal Kulkarni	90	90	290.5	2,404	86	8	27.95	8.26	20.29
4	Lasith Malinga	122	122	471.1	3,366	170	8	19.8	7.14	16.62
5	Sandeep Sharma	79	79	290.5	2,272	95	8	23.91	7.81	18.36
6	Bhuvneshwar Kumar	117	117	435.2	3,154	133	8	23.71	7.24	19.63
7	Dale Steyn	92	92	351	2,375	96	7	24.73	6.76	21.93
8	Amit Mishra	147	147	516.5	3,799	157	6	24.19	7.35	19.75
9	Harbhajan Singh	160	157	562.2	3,967	150	6	26.44	7.05	22.49
10	Munaf Patel	63	63	225.5	1,698	74	5	22.94	7.51	18.31