Best Bowling Strike Rate IPL 2024

T20 is harsh for the bowlers with the format favouring the batsman heavily, backed by the crowd who pays to watch fours and sixes. If you are a bowler, tough luck. But then there are bowlers like Lasith Malinga and Jasprit Bumrah who defy all conventions and deliver with their sheer ability and skills.

In IPL and other T20 leagues, for a bowler the metric called strike-rate stands out, and rates him as a bowler fit for the shortest format of the game. Bowling strike rate, calculated as the average number of balls bowled per wicket taken. It is an indicator of a bowler's ability to pick wickets.

A format where bowlers are easily forgotten can often prove to be the match-winners, and there have been occasions in IPL history where bowlers have picked hat-tricks, five-fors, a spell that had shifted the momentum of the match. The format demands the bowlers to be creative, fearless, skillful and have an armoury of variations to counter the assault from batsmen.

Yuzvendra Chahal of Rajasthan Royals has been phenomenal in this season too as the legspinner has the ability to pick wickets for his team at crucial junctures of the game. Same can be said of Bumrah, one of the premier bowlers of the league, has been brilliant with his execution and has got too many tricks to pull off in a short spell of four overs.

Matheesha Pathirana (CSK), Moeen Ali (CSK) and Mayank Yadav (LSG) are the bowlers in IPL 2024 with strike-rate of 9.00. Followed by Andre Russell (KKR) and Darshan Nalkande (GT) with bowling strike-rates of 9.33 and 9.66 respectively.

In a tournament where the margin of error is very minimal and pressure immense, bowlers who can deliver breakthroughs with consistency hold the key to a team's success.

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