Most wickets in BBL season: List of bowlers with highest number of wickets in a Big Bash League season

Dixit Bhargav | 26/01/2022
Most wickets in BBL season: List of bowlers with highest number of wickets in a Big Bash League season

Most wickets in BBL season: The captain of Adelaide Strikers has entered an elite Big Bash League bowling club today.

During the Challenger match of the ongoing 11th season of the Big Bash League between Sydney Sixers and Adelaide Strikers in Sydney, defending champions Sydney Sixers beat Adelaide Strikers by 4 wickets to qualify for what will be their sixth BBL final appearance.

Chasing a 168-run target, Sixers registered a last-ball finish after their ploy of opening the batting (for the first time this season) with pacer Hayden Kerr worked wonders as his career-best 98* (58) including 10 fours and two sixes powered them to victory in a virtual semi-final.

Needing two runs to win off the final delivery, Kerr was assisted by a mis-field which saw him hitting a boundary to put on display an emphatic victory at the Sydney Cricket Ground. When Sixers had needed 65 runs off 37 deliveries, Kerr had put together a 55-run partnership for the fifth wicket alongside pacer Sean Abbott (41).

While Strikers’ bowlers tried their best to restrict the hosts, they were let down by their fielders on a couple of occasions. With Adelaide providing reprieves to Kerr early on in his innings, it ended up proving costly for them in the long run.

Most wickets in BBL season

Strikers captain Peter Siddle, who dismissed his counterpart Moises Henriques (13) to strengthen their grip on the match at one moment, registered bowling figures of 4-0-28-1 tonight.

Henriques’ wicket saw Siddle joining Sydney Thunder all-rounder Daniel Sams in picking most wickets in a BBL season. In 17 matches this season, Siddle has picked 30 wickets at an average of 17.73, an economy rate of 8.33 and a strike rate of 12.7.

Had Strikers won the match to confirm a BBL 11 final berth, the 37-year old bowler would’ve got another shot at picking the most wickets in a Big Bash League season.

Bowler Team Matches Overs Maidens Runs Wickets Average Economy SR Season
Daniel Sams Sydney Thunder 17 58.5 2 461 30 15.36 7.83 11.7 2019-20
Peter Siddle Adelaide Strikers 17 63.5 0 532 30 17.73 8.33 12.7 2021-22
Jhye Richardson Perth Scorchers 17 61.3 1 473 29 16.31 7.69 12.7 2020-21
Hayden Kerr Sydney Sixers 16 47 0 355 24 14.79 7.55 11.7 2021-22
Ben Dwarshuis Sydney Sixers 13 45.3 1 403 24 16.79 8.85 11.3 2020-21
Kane Richardson Melbourne Renegades 14 54.5 0 425 24 17.7 7.75 13.7 2018-19
Mark Steketee Brisbane Heat 16 56.2 0 522 24 21.75 9.26 14 2020-21
Andrew Tye Perth Scorchers 15 49.3 0 409 22 18.59 8.26 13.5 2021-22
Chris Morris Sydney Thunder 15 53.1 0 426 22 19.36 8.01 14.5 2019-20
Tom Curran Sydney Sixers 14 47.1 0 427 22 19.4 9.05 12.8 2019-20
Post Edited By: Dixit Bhargav
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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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