Top 5 Bowlers With Most Dot Balls in IPL History

The bowlers are seldom the heroes in T20 cricket because you often see them being hit all over the park. However, some bowlers have done really well in this format, especially in the Indian Premier League (IPL), which is India’s premier T20 tournament which kick started way back in 2008 and has grown to become the most popular T20 league in the world right now.

Top 5 bowlers with most IPL dot balls

Bowlers need to be celebrated more in T20 cricket, especially those who build pressure by bowling dot balls. Sometimes, the pressure built by bowling dot balls in your over reaps benefits when another bowler gets the wicket. Today, we’re covering the top bowlers with the most dot balls in IPL history, and all these stats are updated as of 11th March 2022 before the start of the IPL 2022 season.

5) Lasith Malinga

There are very few IPL bowling records that don’t feature Sri Lanka’s Lasith Malinga. He retired a few seasons ago but it still in this list of most IPL dot balls, with a total of 1,155 dot balls in his 471.1 overs bowled in the IPL. He has an average of 2.45 dots per over in this tournament and once IPL 2022 begins, he’s likely to disappear from this list as many bowlers are really close to his tally of dot balls.

4) Sunil Narine

This West Indian bowler once bowled a maiden in a super over so there’s no questioning his ability to bowl the dot balls. In his 520.2 overs bowled in the IPL, he’s got 1,249 dot balls which is as many as 2.40 dots per over. He’s only one of two bowlers on this list with an economy rate below 7, going at 6.74 runs per over in his IPL career so far until the start of the IPL 2022 season.

3) Ravichandran Ashwin

We have as many as three spinners in this list and India’s Ravichandran Ashwin is one of them. One of India’s leading wicket-takers in the Test format, he’s been good in the T20 format too, with 1,265 dot balls bowled in 583 overs in the tournament. He has as many as 2.16 dots per over and he’s a contender to go to the top of the list of most IPL dots because there’s a difference of only three dots between him and the leader.

2) Bhuvneshwar Kumar

For someone who has bowled a lot of is IPL overs in the powerplay as well as in death overs, it’s an amazing achievement for Bhuvneshwar Kumar to be in this list. He’s also in the list of most IPL maidens and here, he’s got 1,267 dot balls in only 491.3 IPL overs which means he’s got the highest rate of dots per over of 2.57. With the leader of this list now retired, it’s going to be a tough fight between Ashwin and Bhuvi!

1) Harbhajan Singh

One of India’s top off-spinners of all-time, Harbhajan Singh aka ‘Bhajji’ cast his magic on the Indian Premier League as well, with as many as 1,268 dot balls in 569.2 overs in his IPL career. He went at 2.22 dots per over and while he’s topping this list, he’s likely to fall out of the top three once the IPL 2022 season begins.