One has to say that IPL is a tournament tilted towards batsmen, from flat pitches to shorter boundaries and powerplays and why not? it's devised for people to watch sixes flying as they dig into their dinner every evening but cricket always was and remains a game where bowlers can do more damage on their best days than batters. This brings us to couple of questions = who are the best bowlers in IPL and which bowler has got most wickets in a single series so far as we enter the fourth edition? following are your answers..Best figures in IPL
Sohail Tanvir is the only bowler to take a six wicket haul in an IPL match, achieving the feat against Chennai Super Kings while playing for Rajasthan Royals in the very first edition which Jaipur team won against all odds. Anil Kumble, Amit Mishra, Lasith Malinga and Laxmipathi Balaji are only four other bowlers so far to take a fifer in Indian premier league twenty20 games..
Our following list is limited to bowlers who have taken at least 4 wickets in an innings and conceded no more than 19 runs in their spell, irrespective of whether they bowled their full quota of 50 overs or not.
| Best bowling figures in IPL T20 matches. | ||||||
| Bowler (Team) | Ovs | Wkts | Runs | Versus | Venue | Date |
| Sohail Tanvir (Rajasthan) | 4.0 | 6 | 14 | Chennai | Jaipur | 4 May 2008 |
| Anil Kumble (Bangalore) | 3.1 | 5 | 5 | Rajasthan | Cape Town | 18 Apr 2009 |
| Ishant Sharma (Deccan) | 3.0 | 5 | 12 | Kochi | Kohi | 27 Apr 2011 |
| Lasith Malinga (Mumbai) | 3.4 | 5 | 13 | Delhi | Mumbai | 10 Apr 2011 |
| Amit Mishra (Delhi) | 4.0 | 5 | 17 | Hyderabad | Delhi | 15 May 2008 |
| Harbhajan Singh (Mumbai) | 4.0 | 5 | 18 | Chennai | Mumbai | 22 Apr 2011 |
| Munaf Patel (Mumbai) | 4.0 | 5 | 21 | Punjab | Mohali | 10 May 2011 |
| Laxmipathi Balaji (Chennai) | 4.0 | 5 | 24 | Punjab | Chennai | 10 May 2008 |
| Rohit Sharma (Hyderabad) | 2.0 | 4 | 6 | Mumbai | Centurion | 6 May 2009 |
| Amit Mishra (Deccan) | 4.0 | 4 | 9 | Punjab | Dharamsala | 21 May 2011 |
| Shoaib Akhtar (Kolkata) | 4.0 | 4 | 11 | Delhi | Kolkata | 13 May |
| Doug Bollinger (Chennai) | 4.0 | 4 | 13 | Hyderabad | Mumbai | 22 Apr 2010 |
| Brad Hodge (Kochi) | 4.0 | 4 | 13 | Rajasthan | Indore | 15 May 2011 |
| Sohail Tanvir (Rajasthan) | 4.0 | 4 | 14 | Mumbai | Jaipur | 26 May 2008 |
| S Aravind (Bangalore) | 4.0 | 4 | 14 | Punjab | Bangalore | 6 May 2011 |
| Rajat Bhatia (Delhi) | 2.4 | 4 | 15 | Hyderabad | Durban | 13 May 2009 |
| Anil Kumble (Bangalore) | 4.0 | 4 | 16 | Hyderabad | Jo'burg | 24 May 2009 |
| Anil Kumble (Bangalore) | 3.3 | 4 | 16 | Hyderabad | Mumbai | 24 Apr 2010 |
| Harbhajan Singh (Mumbai) | 4.0 | 4 | 17 | Delhi | Centurion | 21 May 2009 |
| Piyush Chawla (Punjab) | 4.0 | 4 | 17 | Bangalore | Dharamsala | 17 May 2011 |
| Dilhara Fernando (Mumbai) | 4.0 | 4 | 18 | Bangalore | Bangalore | 28 May 2008 |
| Amit Singh (Rajasthan) | 4.0 | 4 | 19 | Bangalore | Centurion | 7 May 2009 |
| Angelo Mathews (Kolkata) | 4.0 | 4 | 19 | Kolkata | Bangalore | 14 May 2010 |
Most wickets in IPL
RP Singh, the left arm medium pacer, is the surprise leader in list of most upto the 2011 edition while Lasith Malinga comes next. Amit Mishra, Irfan Pathan, Irfan Pathan and Piyush Chawla also feature.
Most wickets in an IPL series
The race for purple cap, which leader of wicket takers in the tournament gets, has always been intriguing but who's the bowler with most wickets in one series of Indian Premier league? Answer is
| Most wickets by a bowler in one IPL tournament or series. | |||||||
| Bowler (team) | Wkts | Mts | Ovs | Runs | Eco. | Best | IPL year |
| Lasith Malinga (Mumbai) | 28 | 16 | 63.0 | 375 | 5.95 | 5/13 | 2011 |
| RP Singh (Hyderabad) | 23 | 16 | 59.4 | 417 | 6.98 | 4/22 | 2009 |
| Munaf Patel (Mumbai) | 22 | 15 | 54.2 | 358 | 6.58 | 5/21 | 2011 |
| Sohail Tanvir (Rajasthan) | 22 | 11 | 41.1 | 266 | 6.46 | 6/14 | 2008 |
| Sreenath Aravind (Bangalore) | 21 | 13 | 46.0 | 368 | 8.00 | 4/14 | 2011 |
| Anil Kumble (Bangalore) | 21 | 16 | 59.1 | 347 | 5.86 | 5/5 | 2009 |
| Pragyan Ojha (Hyderabad) | 21 | 16 | 58.5 | 429 | 7.29 | 3/26 | 2010 |
| R Ashwin (Chennai) | 20 | 16 | 63.0 | 388 | 6.15 | 3/16 | 2011 |
| Ashish Nehra (Delhi) | 19 | 13 | 51.0 | 346 | 6.78 | 3/27 | 2009 |
| Amit Mishra (Deccan) | 19 | 14 | 53.2 | 358 | 6.71 | 4/9 | 2011 |
| Shane Warne (Rajasthan) | 19 | 15 | 52.0 | 404 | 7.76 | 3/19 | 2008 |
| S Sreesanth (Punjab) | 19 | 15 | 51.1 | 442 | 3/29 | 8.63 | 2008 |
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