List of Bowlers Who Clean Bowled Batters Most Times in IPL

Lasith Malinga

Mumbai Indians | 63 Bowled Dismissals | 170 Wickets

Sri Lanka's yorker king holds the all-time IPL record for most bowled dismissals with 63, reflecting how his full-length bowling and unstoppable yorkers consistently found the stumps. Malinga's sling-arm action, combined with his ability to swing the ball late and change pace dramatically, meant batsmen were regularly beaten completely to have their stumps disturbed. His 63 bowled dismissals represent 37% of his total wicket tally.

Sunil Narine

Kolkata Knight Riders | 53 Bowled Dismissals | 192 Wickets

KKR's mystery spinner has clean bowled 53 batters in IPL history — the most by any spinner in the tournament. Narine's unreadable variations, where the ball regularly goes straight on rather than spinning, produces bowled dismissals that leave batsmen — and commentators — bewildered. Many of his bowled victims expected his off-spinner to turn but were beaten by the straight one.

Piyush Chawla

CSK / KKR / KXIP / MI | 50 Bowled Dismissals | 192 Wickets

The veteran leg-spinner has bowled 50 batters in IPL history — the most by any retired leg-spinner in the tournament. Chawla's sharp-turning leg-break and well-disguised googly regularly beat the inside edge to hit leg-stump, or rip through the gap between bat and pad to clip the top of off-stump.

Jasprit Bumrah

Mumbai Indians | 43+ Bowled Dismissals | 183 Wickets

India's ace pacer overtook Bhuvneshwar Kumar in 2025 to move to fourth on the all-time IPL bowled dismissals list with 43. Bumrah's pinpoint yorkers, which regularly split the bat and pad or find the gap in the lower-order, have been the primary source of his clean-bowled dismissals across a career notable for its extraordinary accuracy.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar

SRH / RCB / PWI | 41 Bowled Dismissals | 198 Wickets

India's swing king has produced 41 bowled dismissals, with his in-swinging full-length deliveries regularly defeating batsmen who try to play across the line or miss the swing entirely to have their stumps clattered. Bhuvneshwar's bowled percentage of 20.7% reflects his full-length, stump-to-stump style.

Yuzvendra Chahal

MI / RCB / RR / PBKS | 40+ Bowled Dismissals | 221 Wickets

The IPL's all-time wicket leader has bowled over 40 batters through the gate with his wrist-spin. Chahal's sharply-turning leg-break regularly finds the gap between bat and pad to clip the top of off-stump, and his well-disguised googly goes through batsmen expecting the leg-break to turn away.

Amit Mishra

DD / SRH / LSG | 38 Bowled Dismissals | 174 Wickets

India's most prolific IPL leg-spinner produced 38 bowled dismissals, the most by any Indian spinner in the tournament. Mishra's sharply-spinning googly — which goes straight on rather than turning away — regularly beat the outside edge and went on to hit off or middle stump, while his top-spinner produced low, skidding bowled dismissals.

Harbhajan Singh

MI / CSK / KKR | 32 Bowled Dismissals | 150 Wickets

India's veteran off-spinner produced 32 bowled dismissals through his sharp-turning off-break and doosra. Harbhajan's ability to bowl a delivery that went straight on — fooling batsmen who expected the off-break to turn away — regularly produced stumped-looking bowled dismissals.

Rashid Khan

SRH / GT | 30+ Bowled Dismissals | 158 Wickets

Afghanistan's leg-spin genius has bowled over 30 batters clean in the IPL — a high ratio that reflects how his quicker delivery (going straight on) and leg-break regularly beat batsmen completely. Rashid's 19% bowled rate is among the highest for an attacking spin bowler with 100+ wickets in the tournament.

Dwayne Bravo

CSK / MI | 28 Bowled Dismissals | 183 Wickets

The death-over specialist produced 28 bowled dismissals through his wide yorkers — which squeezed through the bat-pad gap at the batter's feet — and his slower balls that hit the top of the stumps when batsmen played too early. Bravo's bowled percentage of 15.3% is remarkable for a death specialist who relies more on catches than direct dismissals.

Ravichandran Ashwin

CSK / DC / KXIP / RPS / RR | 28 Bowled Dismissals | 187 Wickets

India's off-spin legend produced 28 bowled dismissals through his carrom ball, which goes straight on and beats the inside edge, and his doosra, which turns into right-handed batsmen and clips the top of off-stump. Ashwin's arm-ball also produced several bowled victims who played for the off-break turn.

Umesh Yadav

DD / RCB / KKR / GT | 26 Bowled Dismissals | 143 Wickets

The Chhattisgarh express produced 26 bowled dismissals through his raw pace and full-length bowling that skidded through to hit the top of the stumps before batsmen could adjust their backlift. Umesh's ability to hit the pitch hard and generate awkward, skidding deliveries produced consistent clean-bowled dismissals throughout his career.

Trent Boult

MI / DC / KKR / SRH / RR | 24 Bowled Dismissals | 143 Wickets

New Zealand's left-arm swing specialist produced 24 bowled dismissals, primarily through his in-swinging deliveries that curved late into right-handers and beat the bat entirely to hit the top of leg or middle stump. Boult's in-swinging yorker was his primary weapon for clean-bowl dismissals.

Mohammed Shami

DD / KKR / PBKS / GT | 22 Bowled Dismissals | 120 Wickets

India's red-ball swing specialist produced 22 bowled dismissals through his late-swinging, full-length deliveries that beat the outside edge and clattered the top of off-stump. Shami's bowled rate of 18.3% reflects his full-pitched attack on the stumps that produces clean-bowled dismissals rather than edge-and-catch outcomes.

Zaheer Khan

MI / DD / RCB | 20 Bowled Dismissals | 102 Wickets

India's legendary left-arm pacer produced 20 bowled dismissals, primarily through his reverse-swinging full deliveries and in-swinging yorkers that beat batsmen's late attempts to adjust. Zaheer's ability to reverse the old ball in Indian conditions produced several spectacular clean-bowled dismissals in the latter stages of innings.

Kagiso Rabada

DD / DC / PBKS / KKR | 20 Bowled Dismissals | 120 Wickets

South Africa's pace spearhead produced 20 bowled dismissals through his express-pace yorkers and skidding full-length deliveries that left batsmen no time to adjust. Rabada's clean-bowled rate of 16.7% reflects his ability to be simultaneously threatening off-stump and absolutely lethal on the stumps.

Sandeep Sharma

KXIP / SRH / RR / MI | 19 Bowled Dismissals | 115 Wickets

The Punjab medium-pacer produced 19 bowled dismissals through his inswinging deliveries angled into right-handers, which regularly clipped the top of leg stump when batsmen played across the line. Sandeep's full-length style of bowling, which prioritises hitting the stumps, produces a steady stream of clean-bowled victims.

Harshal Patel

RCB / PBKS | 18 Bowled Dismissals | 139 Wickets

The death-over specialist produced 18 bowled dismissals, primarily through his yorker that squeezed through the bat-pad gap at the batter's feet and his well-disguised slower ball that beat batsmen who played too early and was too slow to miss the stumps. Harshal's wide yorker also produced several angled bowled dismissals.

Ravindra Jadeja

CSK / RR / GL / Kochi | 18 Bowled Dismissals | 170 Wickets

India's finest left-arm spinner produced 18 bowled dismissals through his sharp-turning deliveries that beat the inside edge and hit the stumps, and his arm ball that went straight on and deceived batsmen expecting turn. Jadeja's quick-arm action and variable pace produced consistent bat-beaten outcomes.

Imran Tahir

CSK / DD | 17 Bowled Dismissals | 86 Wickets

South Africa's leg-spinner produced 17 bowled dismissals from just 86 IPL wickets — the highest clean-bowl percentage (19.8%) of any bowler in this top 20. Tahir's huge-spinning leg-break and his well-disguised googly regularly found gaps through the bat-pad combination to hit the stumps, producing more than one in five of his wickets as clean-bowled dismissals.