List of Most Wides Bowled in IPL History

Dwayne Bravo — Most Career Wides Among IPL Bowlers with 150+ Wickets

Chennai Super Kings | Wide Yorker = Stock Death-Over Delivery

Dwayne Bravo has bowled the most wide deliveries in IPL history among bowlers with 150+ career wickets. His primary death-over weapon is the wide yorker — a full-pitched delivery angled outside off-stump beyond the wide line that is virtually impossible to hit but counts as a wide if it passes the striker without being played. Across 161 matches with CSK, his wide yorker strategy produced many wickets AND many wides, making him the bowler with the highest career wide count in IPL history.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar — High Wide Count from Swing Bowling

SRH | Outswing Past Off-Stump Goes Wide When Batter Cannot Reach

Bhuvneshwar Kumar has accumulated a high number of career wides from his outswing bowling — when deliveries shaped away beyond the off-stump wide line after initially appearing within it. Across 190 IPL matches, his swing bowling has naturally produced more wides per over than straight bowlers, particularly in the powerplay where he bowls wide outside off-stump to create edges.

T. Natarajan — Highest Wides Per Over in Current Era

SRH | Left-Arm Angle Produces Regular Leg-Side Wides

T. Natarajan, the left-arm yorker specialist for Sunrisers Hyderabad, has the highest wides-per-over rate among all current regular IPL bowlers. His left-arm over-the-wicket angle naturally angles deliveries towards the leg side of right-handers, and when his yorkers miss the stumps on the legside, they often go down as leg-side wides. Despite this, his economy in the death overs remains competitive — wides are accepted as part of his bowling strategy.

IPL 2024 — Highest Team Wide Count Season in IPL History

SRH vs RCB (287/3 match featured record wides in one innings)

IPL 2024 produced a record number of wides per match on average — driven by the season's extremely aggressive batting (SRH set the IPL record of 287/3) and the corresponding pressure on bowlers to bowl defensively wide. Bowlers attempting wide yorkers under extreme batting pressure produced the highest per-match wide rate in any IPL season. The SRH vs RCB match where SRH scored 287/3 featured 15+ wides across both innings — the most in any single IPL game in 2024.

Most Team Wides in a Single IPL Match: 15+ Wides

Multiple High-Scoring Matches 2023-2024 | Extreme Batting Conditions

The highest number of wides by both teams combined in a single IPL match is 15+, recorded across multiple high-scoring matches in 2023 and 2024. These matches featured extreme batting conditions — short boundaries, flat pitches, and T20's most aggressive batting lineups — that forced bowlers into defensive wide-line strategies that generated wides at an unprecedented rate. The 2025 season's average was 3.4 wides per team per match (6.8 combined), reflecting the modern era's acceptance of wides as a calculated trade-off.

Leg-Side Wide Rule — The Most Impactful Wide Regulation in IPL

T20 Leg-Side Wide Interpretation Changed Bowling Strategy

The T20 cricket wide rule applies a stricter leg-side interpretation than Test or ODI cricket. Any delivery going down the leg side that the batter cannot play with a normal straight bat stroke is called wide — including leg-side yorkers that miss leg-stump. This rule has fundamentally altered IPL bowling strategy: left-arm bowlers bowling from over the wicket to right-handers (T. Natarajan, Jaydev Unadkat, Mitchell Starc) are most frequently penalised with leg-side wides because their natural angle targets the leg stump.

Jofra Archer — Wide + No-Ball Combination in Record-Breaking 0/76 (2025)

RR vs SRH | March 23, 2025 | The Most Expensive Wide + No-Ball Match

In Jofra Archer's record-breaking 0/76 spell for RR vs SRH on March 23, 2025, his figures were further inflated by a no-ball full-toss in the final over that ran away for 4 byes — in addition to other wides during his spell. The combination of wides, no-balls, and boundary sixes in that match made it the most expensive single bowling outing in IPL history from a combined extras and runs perspective, not just the total of 76 runs per se.