Who Has Bowled Most DOTS In IPL History?
Dot balls are actually as gold dust in T20 cricket. They make it possible to build scoreboard pressure on the batsmen, which eventually results in a wicket.
Over the course of the past sixteen months of the Indian Premier League (IPL), we’ve seen plenty such bowlers that have perfected the art of ramping up the scoreboard pressure on the batsman by continually delivering dot balls.
Probably the most effective bowler in this regard have been veteran India and SunRisers Hyderabad swing bowler, Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
The right arm swing bowler has sent down 593 overs in the 160 match IPL career of his, during which he delivered 1534 dot balls.
The top 5 is actually dominated by the spinners, with Sunil Narine (1478 in 624 overs), R Ashwin (1477 in 698 overs), Piyush Chawla (1272 in 605 overs), and Harbhajan Singh (1268 in 569 overs) occupying the 2nd, 4th, 3rd, and 5th spot respectively.
The 7th and 6th spot are actually occupied by veteran spinners, Amit Mishra (1186 in 559 overs) and Ravindra Jadeja (1159 in 589 overs) respectively followed by pacer duo of Lasith Malinga (1155 in 471 overs), Umesh Yadav (1147 in 487 overs) as well as the best bowler in IPL history, Yuzvendra Chahal, that has delivered 1129 dots in his 145 match career thus far.