There is no time left for the 15th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2022) to start and before that a record is coming out which was unbroken for a long time but could be broken this season. There is also a possibility that this record can be broken in the first match itself. Actually, the record is for the most wickets in which the legendary Lasith Malinga is on top. Behind him is Dwayne Bravo who can break this record by taking 4 wickets.
Dwayne Bravo has been bought back by his franchise Chennai Super Kings for IPL 2022 for Rs 4.40 crores. He has 167 wickets in 151 matches in IPL so far. At the same time, Malinga, who retired after the 2019 season, took 170 wickets in 122 matches. Chennai will face KKR in the first match of this season. So Bravo will have a chance to break this record in the first match itself.
Apart from Bravo, the bowlers who were a little closer to Malinga in this list did not find any buyer this season. We are talking about Piyush Chawla and Amit Mishra. At the same time, Harbhajan Singh, who took 150 IPL wickets, had said goodbye to cricket before the auction. Now let’s look at the top-5 bowlers in this list.
These bowlers touched 150 wickets in IPL
- Lasith Malinga – 122 matches 170 wickets
- Dwayne Bravo – 151 matches, 167 wickets
- Amit Mishra – 154 matches 166 wickets
- Piyush Chawla – 165 matches 157 wickets
- Harbhajan Singh – 150 wickets in 163 matches
If we talk about such Indian bowlers who are currently playing IPL and they also have a chance to overtake Malinga and Bravo in the coming years, in them Ravichandran Ashwin (145), Bhuvneshwar Kumar (142), Yuzvendra Chahal (139) and Jasprit Bumrah (130). Caribbean spinner Sunil Narine also has 143 wickets in 134 matches and has been retained by KKR this year as well.