IPL Most Wickets in Wins: All-Time Records

Yuzvendra Chahal has taken 134 of his 233 Indian Premier League wickets in matches his side went on to win. Bhuvneshwar Kumar is one behind on 133, then Ravindra Jadeja and Sunil Narine on 126 each and Lasith Malinga on 124. Across the whole competition, 60.9 per cent of all bowler-credited wickets fall in the winning side's column, so that number is the yardstick every line below should be read against.

The list is a curious one because it measures two things at once. A bowler needs to be good enough to take wickets and lucky enough to be picked by a side that wins, and pulling those apart is impossible from the totals alone. What the data can do is show whose career was unusually concentrated in victories — Malinga took 72.9 per cent of his wickets in wins, twelve points above the league baseline, while Chahal's 57.5 per cent is below it despite him leading the table.

All figures come from the 1,243 Indian Premier League matches played from 2008 to the 2026 final. Super overs are excluded, as they are from the all-time wicket list; the batting equivalent of this page is the runs in wins record.

Most IPL wickets in matches won

A win here means the bowler's team won the match, including the sixteen matches settled by super over. Matches with no result count as neither.

#	Bowler	Wickets in wins	Matches won	Career wickets	Share in wins
1	Yuzvendra Chahal	134	70	233	57.5%
2	Bhuvneshwar Kumar	133	76	226	58.8%
3	Ravindra Jadeja	126	70	180	70.0%
3	Sunil Narine	126	76	207	60.9%
5	Lasith Malinga	124	61	170	72.9%
6	Jasprit Bumrah	120	60	187	64.2%
7	Ravichandran Ashwin	117	83	187	62.6%
8	Dwayne Bravo	115	69	183	62.8%
9	Piyush Chawla	111	67	192	57.8%
10	Rashid Khan	105	60	179	58.7%
11	Amit Mishra	104	57	174	59.8%
11	Harbhajan Singh	104	61	150	69.3%
13	Mohit Sharma	102	51	134	76.1%
14	Trent Boult	98	56	145	67.6%
15	Kagiso Rabada	91	43	148	61.5%
16	Umesh Yadav	90	50	144	62.5%
16	Harshal Patel	90	49	151	59.6%
18	Sandeep Sharma	88	51	151	58.3%
19	Axar Patel	85	57	139	61.2%
20	Mohammed Shami	83	51	145	57.2%
21	Krunal Pandya	82	47	107	76.6%
21	Mohammed Siraj	82	50	128	64.1%
23	Varun Chakravarthy	76	38	111	68.5%
24	Shardul Thakur	74	40	119	62.2%
25	Andre Russell	73	42	123	59.3%
26	Jaydev Unadkat	68	38	114	59.6%
26	Kuldeep Yadav	68	36	112	60.7%
28	Vinay Kumar	67	37	105	63.8%
29	Prasidh Krishna	65	33	90	72.2%
30	Ashish Nehra	63	31	106	59.4%
31	Arshdeep Singh	62	34	111	55.9%
32	Deepak Chahar	61	35	96	63.5%
33	Mitchell Starc	60	28	76	78.9%
33	Lakshmipathy Balaji	59	30	76	77.6%
33	Avesh Khan	59	33	93	63.4%
36	Zaheer Khan	58	32	102	56.9%

Whose career sat most heavily in victories

Restricted to bowlers with 75 or more career wickets, so a short spell with a strong side cannot top the list. The league figure of 60.9 per cent is the line to compare against.

#	Bowler	Share in wins	Wickets in wins	Career wickets
1	Mitchell Starc	78.9%	60	76
2	Lakshmipathy Balaji	77.6%	59	76
3	Krunal Pandya	76.6%	82	107
4	Mohit Sharma	76.1%	102	134
5	Lasith Malinga	72.9%	124	170
6	Prasidh Krishna	72.2%	65	90
7	Ravindra Jadeja	70.0%	126	180
8	Harbhajan Singh	69.3%	104	150
9	Varun Chakravarthy	68.5%	76	111
10	Trent Boult	67.6%	98	145
11	Jasprit Bumrah	64.2%	120	187
12	Mohammed Siraj	64.1%	82	128
13	Vinay Kumar	63.8%	67	105
14	Deepak Chahar	63.5%	61	96
15	Avesh Khan	63.4%	59	93
16	Dwayne Bravo	62.8%	115	183
17	Ravichandran Ashwin	62.6%	117	187
18	Umesh Yadav	62.5%	90	144

Three of the top five bowled the bulk of their overs for Chennai Super Kings or Mumbai Indians, which between them have won more titles than the other franchises combined. That is not a coincidence and it is not entirely a compliment to the bowlers either: a share above seventy per cent is at least as much a statement about the batting they were bowling alongside.

Wickets per winning appearance

The totals reward longevity, so it is worth isolating how productive each bowler was in the matches his side won. Restricted to bowlers with 25 or more winning appearances.

#	Bowler	Wickets per winning match	Matches won	Wickets in wins
1	Mitchell Starc	2.14	28	60
2	Kagiso Rabada	2.12	43	91
3	Lasith Malinga	2.03	61	124
3	Ashish Nehra	2.03	31	63
5	Jasprit Bumrah	2.00	60	120
5	Mohit Sharma	2.00	51	102
5	Varun Chakravarthy	2.00	38	76
8	Lakshmipathy Balaji	1.97	30	59
8	Prasidh Krishna	1.97	33	65
10	Yuzvendra Chahal	1.91	70	134
11	Kuldeep Yadav	1.89	36	68
12	Shardul Thakur	1.85	40	74
13	Harshal Patel	1.84	49	90
14	Amit Mishra	1.82	57	104
14	Arshdeep Singh	1.82	34	62
16	Vinay Kumar	1.81	37	67
17	Ravindra Jadeja	1.80	70	126
17	Umesh Yadav	1.80	50	90
19	Jaydev Unadkat	1.79	38	68
20	Bhuvneshwar Kumar	1.75	76	133

Mitchell Starc tops this table on 28 winning appearances, and the reason is straightforward: he has played fewer IPL seasons than almost anyone else on the page, all of them for sides that reached the knockouts, and he has never been asked to bowl through a bad year. Kagiso Rabada's 2.12 across 43 wins is the more substantial figure.

Ashwin's 83 wins and what they are worth

Ravichandran Ashwin has been on the winning side in 83 matches in which he took at least one wicket — more winning appearances than any other bowler in the competition — and he still ranks only seventh for wickets in those matches. His 1.41 wickets per winning game is the lowest of anyone in the top twenty.

That is the clearest illustration of what this record actually measures. Ashwin spent a decade bowling four overs of containment in the middle of an innings, often as the second or third spinner in strong Chennai and Rajasthan attacks, and containment shows up on the scoreboard as somebody else's wicket. His middle-overs economy of 7.03 is the argument his wickets-in-wins total cannot make for him.

The other side of the ledger

Subtracting wins from a career total leaves the wickets taken in matches the bowler's side did not win — defeats, plus the handful of abandoned games. Nobody has more of those than the man who leads the main table.

#	Bowler	Wickets not in a win	Career wickets
1	Yuzvendra Chahal	99	233
2	Bhuvneshwar Kumar	93	226
3	Piyush Chawla	81	192
3	Sunil Narine	81	207
5	Rashid Khan	74	179
6	Ravichandran Ashwin	70	187
6	Amit Mishra	70	174
8	Dwayne Bravo	68	183
9	Jasprit Bumrah	67	187
10	Sandeep Sharma	63	151
11	Mohammed Shami	62	145
12	Harshal Patel	61	151

A bowler cannot control this column. Chahal's 99 wickets in matches that ended badly are the largest body of unrewarded wicket-taking in the competition, and Mohit Sharma's 32 the smallest among anyone past 130 career wickets.

Observations

• Chahal leads the table with the lowest win share of anyone in the top eight. He has taken 233 wickets in 189 matches for four different clubs, several of them mid-table, and the honest reading is that he has been the best wicket-taking bowler in the competition's history without ever bowling for its best side.
• Malinga's 124 wickets in wins came in only 61 winning appearances — 2.03 per match, the third-highest rate on the page. He also has the highest win share of any bowler past 150 career wickets.
• Krunal Pandya's 76.6 per cent is the highest share of anyone past a hundred wickets, and it is almost entirely a Mumbai Indians artefact: he took 107 wickets across a period when his sides won five titles.
• Nine of the top twenty spent most or all of their careers at one club. Bowlers who move — Chahal, Piyush Chawla, Amit Mishra, Mohammed Shami — cluster within three points of the league average, which is what you would expect if franchise strength rather than bowling quality drives the share.
• Only one bowler in the top thirty-six has a win share under 56 per cent: Arshdeep Singh at 55.9. He has taken 111 wickets almost entirely for Punjab Kings, the franchise with the fewest playoff appearances of the long-standing eight, and the number says more about them than about him.

Sources and method

The wickets counted here are those credited to the bowler on a scorecard — bowled, caught, leg before wicket, stumped, hit wicket, caught and bowled. Run-outs and dismissals with no bowler attached are excluded, which is why career totals on this page match the all-time wicket list rather than a total-dismissals count.

A wicket counts as taken in a win when the bowler's team was the recorded winner of that match. The sixteen matches settled by super over are treated as wins for the side that won the eliminator, and their super-over deliveries are excluded from every total; the nine matches abandoned without a result contribute nothing on either side of the ledger.

Two of the three tables carry a qualification threshold, stated above the table, because ratio measures on small samples produce meaningless leaders. The share table needs 75 career wickets; the per-match table needs 25 winning appearances. Both thresholds were chosen before the tables were sorted.

Everything here is computed from the ball-by-ball archive rather than copied from a published leaderboard, because wickets split by match result is not a record the league maintains. Career totals were checked against published IPL bowling records and agree. The data runs to the last ball of the 2026 final, played on 31 May 2026.