List of Bowlers With Most Dot Bowls From IPL Season 1 to 11
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List of Bowlers With Most Dot Bowls From IPL Season 1 to 11

Twenty20 (T20) is considered batsman dominated game but bowlers created tricks to restricts the batsman from doing so.  batsman have also dragged a few tricks that proved to be troublesome. Perhaps, one of those tricks is dot ball. Restricting the opposition from scoring runs is extremely important to build the pressure on batsman as dot ball can turn into wicket.

So, technique and cunning attitude of bowler to bluff batsman is really important in this shorter format in particular. As we all know T20 is format is batsman dominated format in which batsman have the upper hand.

But bowlers, who have time and again created acute pressure on opposition batsman by bowling sequences of dot balls can come on top over the batsman and tempt him to make a mistake which is quite possible. And in T20 sequence dot balls put so much pressure on batsman that his brain starts thinking what to do on next, he will either try to hit six or a four but it might turn into wicket because of rising pressure of dot balls.

Here is the list of top bowlers with most bowls in each IPL season: 

Dale Steyn has the most dot balls, he bowled 211 dot ball in IPL 2013 most in any year. 51.84 is the percentage of dot balls he bowled in that season.

PLAYER Season M I O Dots Runs Wkts Econ
Shane Watson (RR) 2008 15 15 54.1 158 383 17 7.07
RP Singh (DC) 2009 16 16 59 169 417 23 7
Dale Steyn (RCB) 2010 15 15 59 164 406 15 6.88
Lasith Malinga (MI) 2011 16 16 63 183 375 28 5.95
Praveen Kumar (KXIP) 2012 16 16 63 168 434 9 6.88
Dale Steyn (SRH) 2013 17 17 67.5 211 384 19 5.66
Axar Patel (KXIP) 2014 17 17 66 157 405 17 6.13
Ashish Nehra (CSK) 2015 16 16 62 170 449 22 7.2
Bhuvneshwar Kumar (SRH) 2016 17 17 66 156 490 23 7.4
Sunil Narine (KKR) 2017 16 15 59 133 412 10 7
Rashid Khan (SRH) 2018 17 17 68 167 458 21 6.7

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