Bowling a dot ball in IPL is one of the most precious things for a bowler. Also if a bowler manages to bowl few dot balls at the end overs, it is no less than a wicket as it adds to the pressure on the batsmen and forces him to make a mistake. It is not easy to prevent the batsmen from scoring a run in such a format of the game where every batsmen is looking to just score runs. Till now 1648 dot balls have been bowled this season. Let us take a look at the list of bowlers who have bowled most number of dot balls in IPL 7 –
|
Player |
Matches |
Overs |
Runs |
Dots |
|
|
5 |
20.0 |
131 |
59 |
|
5 |
20.0 |
157 |
59 |
|
|
Sunil Narine (KKR) |
5 |
20.0 |
107 |
56 |
|
5 |
19.2 |
143 |
52 |
|
|
Akshar Patel (KXIP) |
5 |
18.0 |
103 |
49 |
|
Yuzvendra Chalal (RCB) |
5 |
19.0 |
101 |
48 |
|
5 |
20.0 |
127 |
47 |
|
|
4 |
15.3 |
91 |
44 |
|
|
5 |
20.0 |
180 |
44 |
|
|
4 |
15.0 |
88 |
43 |
Mitchell Starc’s presence in the RCB camp has given a huge boost to the bowling of their team. Before the tournament began there were speculations that RCB has the weakest bowling attack but bowlers like Starc and Yuzvendra Chahal have proved everyone wrong. Presence of bowlers like Sunil Narine and Morne Morkel in the list is a no shock to anyone. Young Indian bowlers like Akshar Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammed Shami and Ishwar Pandey have also made to the list.
Stat updated till 29 April, 2014