Bowling Strike Rate — 2016
Men's cricket. Balls per wicket, lowest first. · min. 6 wickets Ranked from ball-by-ball data. See the women's list →
| 1 | Paul van Meekeren | 7.71 | 7 | 7.00 | 5.44 |
| 2 | Max Sorensen | 9.75 | 8 | 12.13 | 7.46 |
| 3 | Al-Amin Hossain | 11.41 | 22 | 15.18 | 7.98 |
| 4 | Chad Soper | 12.85 | 13 | 10.46 | 4.89 |
| 5 | Suresh Raina | 13.00 | 6 | 13.17 | 6.08 |
| 6 | Pat Cummins | 15.17 | 6 | 11.17 | 4.42 |
| 7 | Mustafizur Rahman | 15.35 | 20 | 14.45 | 5.65 |
| 8 | Akif Javed | 16.13 | 16 | 19.00 | 7.07 |
| 9 | Safyaan Sharif | 16.29 | 14 | 14.93 | 5.50 |
| 10 | Ashish Nehra | 17.67 | 18 | 20.67 | 7.02 |
| 11 | Kedar Jadhav | 18.00 | 6 | 12.17 | 4.06 |
| 12 | Shane Watson | 18.00 | 9 | 21.78 | 7.26 |
| 13 | Darren Bravo | 18.00 | 10 | 24.30 | 8.10 |
| 14 | Nasum Ahmed | 18.67 | 18 | 15.00 | 4.82 |
| 15 | Mohammad Sami | 18.86 | 7 | 23.86 | 7.59 |
| 16 | Samuel Badree | 19.50 | 8 | 19.88 | 6.12 |
| 17 | Yuzvendra Chahal | 19.50 | 8 | 17.38 | 5.35 |
| 18 | Alasdair Evans | 19.55 | 11 | 20.27 | 6.22 |
| 19 | Chris Sole | 19.71 | 7 | 14.43 | 4.39 |
| 20 | Boyd Rankin | 19.71 | 7 | 23.14 | 7.04 |
| 21 | George Dockrell | 20.11 | 9 | 20.78 | 6.20 |
| 22 | Jasprit Bumrah | 20.22 | 41 | 18.24 | 5.41 |
| 23 | Aaron Phangiso | 20.31 | 13 | 16.38 | 4.84 |
| 24 | Nuwan Kulasekara | 20.57 | 21 | 17.86 | 5.21 |
| 25 | Andre Russell | 21.00 | 6 | 31.67 | 9.05 |
| 26 | Mohammad Naveed | 21.07 | 15 | 19.00 | 5.41 |
| 27 | Aizaz Khan | 21.21 | 14 | 26.79 | 7.58 |
| 28 | Craig Young | 22.00 | 6 | 32.50 | 8.86 |
| 29 | Hardik Pandya | 22.26 | 19 | 26.37 | 7.11 |
| 30 | Muhammad Shahzad | 22.45 | 11 | 26.82 | 7.17 |
| 31 | Andrew McBrine | 22.50 | 8 | 25.75 | 6.87 |
| 32 | James Faulkner | 22.74 | 31 | 25.84 | 6.82 |
| 33 | Mitchell McClenaghan | 23.00 | 6 | 28.67 | 7.48 |
| 34 | Imad Wasim | 24.37 | 27 | 20.89 | 5.14 |
| 35 | Adam Milne | 24.50 | 16 | 27.63 | 6.77 |
| 36 | Asela Gunaratne | 24.63 | 8 | 17.50 | 4.26 |
| 37 | Jeffrey Vandersay | 24.86 | 7 | 28.29 | 6.83 |
| 38 | Mohammad Irfan | 24.92 | 12 | 26.42 | 6.36 |
| 39 | Barry McCarthy | 25.00 | 6 | 28.50 | 6.84 |
| 40 | Con de Lange | 25.50 | 8 | 17.63 | 4.15 |
| 41 | Dhawal Kulkarni | 26.00 | 7 | 23.14 | 5.34 |
| 42 | Reece Topley | 26.25 | 8 | 34.00 | 7.77 |
| 43 | MD Dai | 26.25 | 8 | 23.00 | 5.26 |
| 44 | Brainder Sran | 26.36 | 11 | 24.36 | 5.54 |
| 45 | Shahid Afridi | 26.67 | 9 | 30.89 | 6.95 |
| 46 | Hasan Ali | 26.71 | 17 | 26.35 | 5.92 |
| 47 | Mark Watt | 27.00 | 6 | 24.33 | 5.41 |
| 48 | Adam Zampa | 27.20 | 25 | 25.44 | 5.61 |
| 49 | Kyle Abbott | 27.32 | 28 | 19.68 | 4.32 |
| 50 | Imran Tahir | 27.40 | 30 | 25.47 | 5.58 |
| 51 | Shakib Al Hasan | 27.55 | 40 | 22.78 | 4.96 |
| 52 | Umar Gul | 27.75 | 8 | 30.13 | 6.51 |
| 53 | Grant Elliott | 28.00 | 9 | 28.67 | 6.14 |
| 54 | Nathan Coulter-Nile | 28.18 | 11 | 31.64 | 6.74 |
| 55 | Ashley Nurse | 28.50 | 8 | 23.25 | 4.89 |
| 56 | Tanwir Afzal | 29.33 | 9 | 32.11 | 6.57 |
| 57 | Mashrafe Mortaza | 29.89 | 19 | 31.42 | 6.31 |
| 58 | Anshuman Rath | 30.00 | 7 | 26.86 | 5.37 |
| 59 | Chris Tremain | 30.00 | 6 | 29.50 | 5.90 |
| 60 | Taskin Ahmed | 30.00 | 14 | 30.43 | 6.09 |
| 61 | Tim Murtagh | 30.55 | 11 | 29.64 | 5.82 |
| 62 | Thisara Perera | 30.57 | 7 | 52.43 | 10.29 |
| 63 | David Wiese | 30.75 | 8 | 37.13 | 7.24 |
| 64 | Assad Vala | 31.00 | 6 | 20.83 | 4.03 |
| 65 | Chris Morris | 31.09 | 11 | 38.91 | 7.51 |
| 66 | Dushmantha Chameera | 31.44 | 9 | 38.56 | 7.36 |
| 67 | Wayne Parnell | 31.57 | 7 | 30.29 | 5.76 |
| 68 | Corey Anderson | 32.57 | 7 | 32.57 | 6.00 |
| 69 | Suranga Lakmal | 32.82 | 17 | 32.12 | 5.87 |
| 70 | Sachith Pathirana | 32.86 | 7 | 32.00 | 5.84 |
| 71 | Ish Sodhi | 32.93 | 27 | 24.93 | 4.54 |
| 72 | John Hastings | 33.26 | 19 | 34.63 | 6.25 |
| 73 | Kevin O'Brien | 33.33 | 9 | 40.89 | 7.36 |
| 74 | Liam Plunkett | 33.47 | 17 | 34.00 | 6.09 |
| 75 | Kagiso Rabada | 33.65 | 37 | 28.35 | 5.06 |
| 76 | Mark Wood | 34.29 | 7 | 33.43 | 5.85 |
| 77 | Mehidy Hasan Miraz | 34.53 | 19 | 15.63 | 2.72 |
| 78 | David Willey | 35.22 | 18 | 34.06 | 5.80 |
| 79 | Andile Phehlukwayo | 36.00 | 6 | 33.83 | 5.64 |
| 80 | Chris Jordan | 36.75 | 12 | 45.83 | 7.48 |
| 81 | Nuwan Pradeep | 37.09 | 11 | 40.18 | 6.50 |
| 82 | Ajay Mishra | 37.61 | 28 | 24.46 | 3.90 |
| 83 | Ehsan Khan | 37.83 | 6 | 29.33 | 4.65 |
| 84 | Bhuvneshwar Kumar | 37.87 | 15 | 19.73 | 3.13 |
| 85 | C de Grandhomme | 37.92 | 12 | 21.75 | 3.44 |
| 86 | Donald Tiripano | 38.67 | 9 | 27.33 | 4.24 |
| 87 | Matt Henry | 39.59 | 29 | 29.45 | 4.46 |
| 88 | Scott Boland | 40.24 | 17 | 44.18 | 6.59 |
| 89 | Rohan Mustafa | 40.67 | 6 | 45.67 | 6.74 |
| 90 | Imran Khan | 41.17 | 6 | 21.33 | 3.11 |
| 91 | Mitchell Starc | 41.24 | 37 | 25.89 | 3.77 |
| 92 | James Neesham | 41.40 | 10 | 39.50 | 5.72 |
| 93 | Ravichandran Ashwin | 41.83 | 87 | 23.63 | 3.39 |
| 94 | Dale Steyn | 42.00 | 8 | 49.75 | 7.11 |
| 95 | Carlos Brathwaite | 42.15 | 20 | 41.05 | 5.84 |
| 96 | Wahab Riaz | 44.67 | 39 | 35.28 | 4.74 |
| 97 | Sean Williams | 45.00 | 6 | 37.67 | 5.02 |
| 98 | Trent Boult | 45.36 | 39 | 30.59 | 4.05 |
| 99 | Mitchell Marsh | 45.80 | 20 | 40.80 | 5.34 |
| 100 | Sunil Narine | 45.92 | 12 | 40.25 | 5.26 |