Highest Wicket Taker in IPL History: Dwayne Bravo tops list, Yuzvendra Chahal level in second

Former Chennai Super Kings pacer Dwayne Bravo surpassed the retired Lasith Malinga to become the highest wicket taker in Indian Premier League in the early stages of the 15th edition of IPL.

Mumbai Indians great Malinga had held the crown for leading wicket taker with 170 wickets, having played for the five-time champions since IPL 2009. However, Bravo eclipsed the former Sri Lanka pacer's tally and currently has 183 wickets in 161 matches.

Dwayne Bravo is the highest wicket taker in IPL

Malinga was the first bowler to take 100 wickets in IPL and still holds the record for achieving the feat in very quick time. It took him just 70 matches to take 100 wickets, while the second fastest is Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who achieved the feat in 81 matches.

While Bravo is the highest wicket taker in the IPL, the next few on the list - Amit Mishra, Piyush Chawla, Yuzvendra Chahal and Ravichandran Ashwin can all catch up on the former West Indies pacer in IPL 2023.

In fact, Chahal has already gone level with Malina as the second highest wicket-taker in IPL history, racing past Mishra to the tally of 170 wickets. The leg-spinner is now only 14 wickets away from going top.

Harbhajan Singh along with Malinga are now no longer not part of the cash rich league. Apart from Malinga and Harbhajan, former pacers Ashish Nehra, Zaheer Khan and R Vinay Kumar are no longer part of the playing staff in the Indian Premier League.

Plus, the highest wicket-takers list (minimum 100 wickets) features - 5 retired or inactive players and 14 active players - 5 pacers and 8 spinners. Also, among the active players with 100 or more wickets are 11 Indian players.

R Ashwin and Yuzvendra Chahal are soon catching up on the top two

Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Sunil Narine have both claimed more than 150 wickets, while Ravindra Jadeja, Umesh Yadav, Sandeep Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Rashid Khan, Axar Patel and Mohammed Shami have crossed the 100-wicket mark in IPL.

Highest wicket takers in IPL (minimum 100 wickets) so far

POSITION	PLAYER	WICKETS	MATCHES	ECONOMY RATE	BEST BOWLING
1.	Dwayne Bravo	183	161	8.38	4/22
2.	Laisth Malinga	170	122	7.14	5/13
3.	Yuzvendra Chahal	170	132	7.59	5/40
4.	Amit Mishra	166	154	7.35	5/17
5.	Ravichandran Ashwin	158	184	6.98	4/34
6.	Piyush Chawla	157	166	7.87	4/17
7.	Bhuvneshwar Kumar	154	147	7.30	5/19
8.	Sunil Narine	153	149	6.62	5/19
9.	Harbhajan Singh	150	163	7.07	5/18
10.	Jasprit Bumrah	145	120	7.39	5/10
11.	Umesh Yadav	136	134	8.31	4/23
12.	Ravindra Jadeja	133	211	7.60	5/16
13.	Rashid Khan	114	93	6.38	4/24
14.	Sandeep Sharma	114	104	7.77	4/20
15.	Ashish Nehra	106	89	7.80	4/10
16.	Vinay Kumar	105	105	8.38	4/40
17.	Zaheer Khan	102	100	7.59	4/17
18.	Axar Patel	102	123	7.27	4/21
19.	Mohammed Shami	101	94	8.50	3/15