List Of Leading Wicket Takers In Indian Premier League(IPL) Since 2008

Top 10 highest wicket takers in IPL

Times of Sports(TOS) listed the leading wicket takers of IPL since 2008. The Indian Premier League (IPL) is the most famous professional Twenty20 cricket league in India. It was started in 2008 by the fugitive offender Lalit Modi.

IPL provides huge money and exposure to all international players to play in collaboration with other national players.

It also serves as the best opportunity for uncapped Indian players to play with international standard players. Mumbai Indians are the most successful team that has won 5 Indian Premier League(IPL) titles.

Leading wicket takers in IPL

Rajasthan Royals Yuzvendra Chahal leads the list of leading wicket takers in IPL history. Chahal bagged 6 four wickets haul and 1 five-wicket haul in his IPL career.
Yuzvendra Chahal
Jaydev Unadkat and James Faulkner are the only two players to bag five wickets more than one time since 2008. Rashid Khan has a record of the lowest economy rate in the top 20 players.

List of Leading wicket takers IPL

Yuzvendra Chahal is the leading wicket-taker in the Indian Premier League. The Indian leg spinner took 190 wickets at an economy of 7.66. Following are the details of the Leading wicket-takers in IPL:

The leading wicket-takers list is updated once at the end of every IPL match. 

Player Mat Wkts BBI Ave Econ SR 4 5
YS Chahal (MI/RCB/RR) 147 190 5/40 21.57 7.66 16.88 6 1
DJ Bravo (CSK/GL/MI) 161 183 4/22 23.82 8.38 17.04 2
PP Chawla (CSK/KKR/KXIP/MI) 183 181 4/17 26.85 7.94 20.27 2
A Mishra (DC/LSG/SRH) 161 173 5/17 23.84 7.36 19.41 4 1
R Ashwin (CSK/DC/KXIP/RPS/RR) 199 172 4/34 28.87 7.03 24.62 1
SL Malinga (MI) 122 170 5/13 19.79 7.14 16.62 6 1
B Kumar (PWI/SRH) 162 170 5/19 26.47 7.46 21.27 2 2
SP Narine (KKR) 163 164 5/19 25.74 6.72 22.98 7 1
RA Jadeja (CSK/GL/Kochi/RR) 228 152 5/16 29.8 7.58 23.57 3 1
Harbhajan Singh (CSK/KKR/MI) 163 150 5/18 26.86 7.07 22.77 1 1
JJ Bumrah (MI) 122 148 5/10 23.16 7.37 18.85 2 1
Rashid Khan (GT/SRH) 111 141 4/24 20.97 6.7 18.75 2
UT Yadav (DC/GT/KKR/RCB) 143 138 4/23 30.18 8.45 21.4 3
Mohammed Shami (DC/GT/KKR/KXIP/PBKS) 110 127 4/11 26.86 8.43 19.1 2
Sandeep Sharma (KXIP/PBKS/RR/SRH) 118 125 4/20 27.64 7.86 21.08 2
MM Sharma (CSK/DC/GT/KXIP) 102 122 5/10 23.76 8.41 16.94 3 1
HV Patel (DC/PBKS/RCB) 94 114 5/27 24.24 8.66 16.79 2 1
AR Patel (DC/KXIP) 138 113 4/21 30.68 7.21 25.51 1
K Rabada (DC/PBKS) 71 109 4/21 20.7 8.39 14.8 6
TA Boult (DC/KKR/MI/RR/SRH) 90 107 4/18 26.64 8.3 19.24 1
A Nehra (CSK/DC/MI/PWI/SRH) 88 106 4/10 23.53 7.84 18 1
R Vinay Kumar (KKR/Kochi/MI/RCB) 105 105 4/40 28.24 8.38 20.2 1
Z Khan (DC/MI/RCB) 100 102 4/17 27.27 7.58 21.56 1
AD Russell (DC/KKR) 113 98 5/15 24.24 9.29 15.64 2 1
DW Steyn (DC/GL/RCB/SRH) 95 97 3/8 25.85 6.91 22.43
CH Morris (CSK/DC/RCB/RR) 81 95 4/23 24.15 8 18.1 4
JD Unadkat (DC/KKR/LSG/MI/RCB/RPS/RR/SRH) 95 93 5/25 31.36 8.89 21.16 2
SR Watson (CSK/RCB/RR) 145 92 4/29 29.15 7.93 22.05 1
RP Singh (DC/Kochi/MI/RCB/RPS) 82 90 4/22 25.97 7.9 19.72 2
P Kumar (GL/KXIP/MI/RCB/SRH) 119 90 3/18 36.12 7.72 28.04
PP Ojha (DC/MI) 92 89 3/11 26.2 7.36 21.33
SN Thakur (CSK/DC/KKR/KXIP/RPS) 86 89 4/36 28.76 9.16 18.83 1
DS Kulkarni (GL/MI/RR) 92 86 4/14 28.76 8.3 20.77 1
JA Morkel (CSK/DC/RCB/RPS) 91 85 4/32 27.7 8.2 20.27 1
I Sharma (DC/KKR/KXIP/RPS/SRH) 102 83 5/12 35.21 8.12 26.01 1
Imran Tahir (CSK/DC/RPS) 59 82 4/12 20.76 7.76 16.04 3
Mohammed Siraj (RCB/SRH) 81 80 4/21 29.87 8.52 21.02 2
IK Pathan (DC/GL/KXIP/RPS/SRH) 103 80 3/24 33.11 7.77 25.53
M Morkel (DC/KKR/RR) 70 77 4/20 27.12 7.69 21.15 1
L Balaji (CSK/KKR/KXIP) 73 76 5/24 26.68 8.04 19.9 3 1
DL Chahar (CSK/RPS) 75 75 4/13 27.78 7.93 21.01 2
MM Patel (GL/MI/RR) 63 74 5/21 22.94 7.51 18.31 2 1
Kuldeep Yadav (DC/KKR) 75 74 4/14 28.06 8.11 20.75 3
MJ McClenaghan (MI) 56 71 4/21 25.39 8.49 17.94 1
R Bhatia (DC/KKR/RPS/RR) 95 71 4/15 28.45 7.4 23.04 1
KV Sharma (CSK/MI/RCB/SRH) 76 70 4/16 26.52 8.17 19.47 2
KH Pandya (LSG/MI) 114 70 3/14 33.85 7.29 27.82
AB Dinda (DC/KKR/PWI/RCB/RPS) 78 69 4/18 30.04 8.2 21.97 1
KA Pollard (MI) 189 69 4/44 31.59 8.79 21.56 1
RD Chahar (MI/PBKS/RPS) 71 66 4/27 28.95 7.6 22.84 1
SK Trivedi (RR) 76 65 4/25 29.29 7.58 23.16 1
JH Kallis (KKR/RCB) 98 65 3/13 35.27 7.89 26.8
CV Varun (KKR/KXIP) 57 63 5/20 26.26 7.56 20.82 1 1
M Muralidaran (CSK/Kochi/RCB) 66 63 3/11 26.92 6.67 24.19
Shakib Al Hasan (KKR/SRH) 71 63 3/17 29.19 7.43 23.55
MG Johnson (KKR/KXIP/MI) 54 61 3/26 27.9 8.28 20.19
KK Ahmed (DC/SRH) 45 60 3/21 24.48 8.6 17.06
Arshdeep Singh (KXIP/PBKS) 53 59 5/32 27.37 8.76 18.74 1 1
JP Faulkner (GL/KXIP/PWI/RR) 60 59 5/16 30.13 8.69 20.79 2
S Kaul (DC/RCB/SRH) 55 58 4/29 29.98 8.63 20.84 1
SK Warne (RR) 55 57 4/21 25.38 7.27 20.94 1
Avesh Khan (DC/LSG/RCB/RR) 49 56 4/24 26.75 8.57 18.71 1
A Nortje (DC) 41 54 3/33 24.59 8.42 17.51
Ravi Bishnoi (KXIP/LSG/PBKS) 53 54 3/24 27.61 7.62 21.72
HH Pandya (GT/MI) 125 54 3/17 34.05 8.86 23.03
JO Holder (CSK/KKR/LSG/RR/SRH) 46 53 4/52 27.56 8.81 18.77 1
Mustafizur Rahman (CSK/DC/MI/RR/SRH) 50 53 4/29 28.35 7.91 21.5 1
T Natarajan (KXIP/SRH) 48 51 3/10 30.11 8.75 20.64
S Gopal (MI/RR/SRH) 49 49 4/16 26.16 8.1 19.36 1
M Prasidh Krishna (KKR/RR) 51 49 4/30 34.75 8.92 23.36 1
NM Coulter-Nile (DC/KKR/MI/RR) 39 48 4/14 22.91 7.7 17.85 2
JC Archer (MI/RR) 40 48 3/15 24.39 7.43 19.68
PJ Cummins (DC/KKR/SRH) 44 48 4/34 29.66 8.53 20.85 1
S Nadeem (DC/SRH) 72 48 3/16 37.16 7.56 29.47
SB Jakati (CSK/GL/RCB) 59 47 4/22 30.87 8.02 23.08 2
TG Southee (CSK/KKR/MI/RCB/RR) 54 47 3/20 37.06 8.66 25.65
S Aravind (RCB) 38 45 4/14 23.08 8.2 16.88 2
RJ Harris (DC/KXIP) 37 45 4/34 23.26 7.55 18.48 1
A Kumble (RCB) 42 45 5/5 23.51 6.57 21.44 2 1
VR Aaron (DC/GT/KXIP/RCB/RR) 52 44 3/16 33.65 8.93 22.59
SM Curran (CSK/KXIP/PBKS) 48 43 4/11 35.44 9.53 22.3 1
AJ Tye (GL/KXIP/LSG/RR) 30 42 5/17 23.3 8.58 16.28 3 1
MC Henriques (DC/KKR/PBKS/RCB/SRH) 62 42 3/12 30.69 8.14 22.61
YK Pathan (KKR/RR/SRH) 174 42 3/20 33.69 7.4 27.3
R Sharma (DC/PWI) 44 40 3/13 27.15 7.02 23.2
Iqbal Abdulla (KKR/RCB/RR) 49 40 3/24 27.72 7.23 23
S Sreesanth (Kochi/KXIP/RR) 44 40 3/29 29.75 8.11 22
P Awana (KXIP) 33 39 4/34 26.38 8.26 19.15 1
MP Stoinis (DC/KXIP/LSG/RCB) 83 39 4/15 29.43 9.57 18.43 1
DT Christian (DC/RCB/RPS) 49 38 2/10 31.36 8.09 23.23
PJ Sangwan (DC/GL/GT/KKR/MI) 42 38 3/18 32.63 8.69 22.52
DE Bollinger (CSK) 27 37 4/13 18.72 7.21 15.56 1
LH Ferguson (GT/KKR/RPS) 38 37 4/28 31.64 8.66 21.91 1
MS Gony (CSK/DC/GL/KXIP) 44 37 3/31 34.78 8.69 24
MR Marsh (DC/PWI/RPS/SRH) 40 36 4/25 20.66 8.32 14.88 2
Yuvraj Singh (DC/KXIP/MI/PWI/RCB/SRH) 132 36 4/29 29.91 7.43 24.13 2
Washington Sundar (RCB/RPS/SRH) 58 36 3/16 34.77 7.33 28.44
PW Hasaranga (RCB) 26 35 5/18 21.37 8.13 15.77 1 1
JR Hazlewood (CSK/RCB) 27 35 4/25 23.14 8.05 17.22 1
WD Parnell (DC/PWI/RCB) 33 35 3/10 26.77

IPL Teams 

Following are the details of the IPL participating teams:

  • Punjab Kings
  • Sunrisers Hyderabad
  • Gujarat Titans
  • Delhi Capitals
  • Lucknow Super Giants
  • Rajasthan Royals
  • Royal Challengers Bengaluru
  • Kolkata Knight Riders
  • Chennai Super Kings
  • Mumbai Indians

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