With the advancement of cricket within the last decade, it’s the bowlers who have suffered the foremost. Within the current age of T20 cricket, bowlers discover it difficult to cope.
It’s a format where only one awful over can take your bowling figures into tatters. As a result, your economy rate takes a beating.
For fast-bowlers, who bowl within the power play and passing overs, keeping your economy rate underneath 6 isn’t a little ask. Bowlers have to continuously keep reinventing themselves with pace variations, yorkers etc.
Here’s a look at best 5 bowlers with the most excellent economy rates in T20 World Cup (Minimum 20 overs bowled):
1) 5.17 - Sunil Narine
Sunil Narine’s extraordinary run with Kolkata Knight Riders has made him a household title in world cricket. The West Indies spinner has the finest economy rate of 5.17 within the T20 World Cup. A parcel of batsmen would battle against Narine in his early days because of the former’s unconventional fashion of turn bowling at the side of plenty of bowling varieties beneath his armory.
In 12 matches he played in T20 World Cups, Narine bowled 44.4 overs and picked 15 wickets at an average of 15.40 and an economy of 5.17.
2) 5.37 - Anrich Nortje
Anrich Nortje, Right arm fast bowler from South Africa played two T20 World Cup editions till now. He played 10 matches in T20 World Cups and bowled 36.5 overs with an excellent economy of 5.37. He picked up 20 wickets with an average of just 9.90. Anrich Nortje’s pace and accuracy is what makes him an excellent t20 bowler.
3) 5.42 - Hamid Hassan
Hamid Hassan is a right arm fast bowler from Afghanistan. He played 9 matches for Afghanistan in T20 World Cups and bowled 31.3 overs with an economy of 5.42. He also picked up 10 wickets at an average of 17.10.
4) 5.52 - Samuel Badree
Narine’s partner, Samuel Badree sits at fourth within the list of best economy within the T20 World Cup. A leg-spinner by characteristic, Badree knows how to turn a web around the opposition. With his accurate and taught bowling, Badree is tallied as the leading ploys to halt the run-flow of the opposition. In 15 matches he played in numerous versions, Badree bowled 59 overs and picked 24 wickets with a noteworthy economy of 5.52.
5) 5.53 - Shaun Tait
Shain Tait, the right arm fast bowler from Australia played only the 2010 T20 World Cup. He left a significant mark with his bowling. In the 7 matches he played in the T20 World Cup. He bowled 23.4 overs and picked up 9 wickets with an economy of 5.53.
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