The best bowler in IPL 2009 was A. Singh of Rajasthan Royals. He got just 5 matches, but took 9 wickets at an average of 10.55 each, and an economy rate of 5.42 RPO.

He was followed by the old stalwarts Muthiah Muralitharan (Chennai Super Kings) taking 14 wickets at an average of 18.64 and an economy rate of 5.22 RPO, and Anil Kumble (Royal Challengers Bangalore) taking 21 wickets at an average of 16.52 each, and an economy rate of 5.86 RPO came in 3rd just a few decimals behind Murali.

Here’s a list of Top 10 Bowlers:

S. No. Player Team
1 A Singh Rajasthan Royals
2 M Muralitharan Chennai Super Kings
3 A Kumble Royal Challengers Bangalore
4 SL Malinga Mumbai Indians
5 B Lee Kings XI Punjab
6 A Nehra Delhi Daredevils
7 MM Patel Rajasthan Royals
8 RP Singh Deccan Chargers
9 R Bhatia Delhi Daredevils
10 PP Ojha Deccan Chargers

*These rankings are based on Teams who’ve played 5 matches or more. These rankings are prepared solely by myself based on owned algorithms.

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My Cricket player rankings are out! And you won’t be able to easily guess who is the Most Valuable Player!!
A Total of 368 players took the field in 2008 as against 369 in 2007 (considering that a couple of new teams like UAE and HK also played, this number is much smaller than in 2007).

I have put out different ODI Ranking lists for teams and players. Do check each one out!

ODI Batsmen Rankings 2008 (all teams)
ODI Bowler Rankings 2008 (all teams)
ODI Best Wicketkeepers/ Fielders 2008 (all teams)
ODI Most Valuable Players - All Rounders 2008 (all teams)
ODI Team Rankings 2008 (all teams)

There are many good players waiting to be born out there. There are some players from unknown countries who if perform as per their statistics would become Superstars, or other perish their records accumulated against similar unknown nations.
Did you know there is an allrounder called “RN ten Doeschate” who plays for Netherlands? Well if you check out his performance, he was the Most Valuable Player of 2006 and 2007!! But in 20087 he got to play just 2 matches - so he could not be ranked. Just for the record, if he was ranked he would have got 84.2 points (that’s higher than Ajantha Mendis - the No. 1 MVP of 2008 got!!) Thats a lot of talent being wasted - ICL and IPL are you listening?? Well check out the complete rankings now!!

Well, Ajantha Mendis appeared from nowhere and shot right to the top of the list as MVP 2008 (most valuable player)

*These rankings are based on Players who’ve played 5 matches or more. These rankings are prepared solely by myself based on owned algorithms. These have no relation with ICC or any other rankings calculated elsewhere in the world.

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The ODI Bowler’s Ranking 2008 is out! in the third edition of Vineet’s Cricket Rankings (Check out the ODI Bowler Rankings 2007 here)! And there are lots of surprises here, in fact, like the batting Top 30, the bowling Top 30 almost got entirely revamped with a lot of new bowlers coming in. The biggest setback was that the Sri Lankan bowlers ho took the maximum of 5 positions in Top 30 last year have only 3 bowlers there and except for Muralitharan no one could retain their place in Top 30. Australia, Pakistan and South Africa have 4 bowlers each in the list, but with most of them being new. And surprisingly New Zealand topped with 5 bowlers making the grade. And that is incredible since Shane Bond went out of the team, having participated in the ICL. Well then who are they? Well, Gillespie (not the australian), Southee, Oram, Vettori and Kyle Mills made New Zealand a bowling prowess.

At the top of the heap is new face Ajantha Mendis, who captured 48 wickets in the just 18 matches he played at 10.12 apiece. And he spent a miserly 3.58 runs per over to land right on top. He emerged out of nowhere in 2007 to be at the top in 2008. That’s really an awesome talent to watch out for.

Mupariwa of Zimbabwe came a surprise second taking 14 wickets in 6 matches at 13.0 apiece. And he spent a miserly 3.95 runs per over to land right on top at the second place.

Shaun Pollock took his last bow at No. 3 claiming 6 wickets in 5 matches at 21.83 apiece at a very miserly economy rate of 2.78 rpo. Zaheer Khan made the cut at No. 4 (and last year no Indian was in the list!!) claiming 17 wickets in 10 matches at 19.52 runs per wicket and an economy rate of 3.84.

Where are the Indians? Well PP Ojha just sneaked in at No. 30. With Munaf Patel (No. 31) and Praveen Kumar (No. 33) snapping at his heels. Way to go! What about Harbhajan, Peyush Chawla, Ishant, Sreesanth, RP Singh and Irfan Pathan? Well how about Nos 41, 47, 51, 68, 72, 76 respectively? Well, even Yuvraj was a competitive 75 then. Well, so we all know where India needs to improve much more than just plain breast beating!

Where are the 2007 Top Bowlers?

Only Muralitharan slipped a little from No. 3 to No. 9. All others crashed out of the list, except for maybe Shane Bond, who was done in by the BCCI.

81          FH Edwards (WI) (1)

61
          RJ Sidebottom (Eng) (2)

9
          M Muralitharan (SL) (3)

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          SE Bond (NZ) (4) - he was dropped for playing in the ICL
52          PJ Ongondo (Afr/Kenya) (5)

*These rankings are based on Players who’ve played 5 matches or more. These rankings are prepared solely by myself based on owned algorithms. These have no relation with ICC or any other rankings calculated elsewhere in the world.

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