Best Economy in 2006: Top Performers, Rankings & Full Stats

Here is the complete breakdown of the best economy in 2006, featuring the most impactful players of the year.

Position	Best Economy	Player Name	Team Name
1	1.71	Younis Khan	Pakistan
2	2.09	Jason Gillespie	Australia
3	2.25	Ashwell Prince	South Africa
4	2.30	Andre Botha	Ireland
5	2.60	Mark Cosgrove	Australia
6	2.66	Shaun Udal	England
7	2.72	Corey Collymore	West Indies
8	2.82	Monty Panesar	England
9	2.82	Glenn McGrath	Australia
10	2.97	Jacob Oram	New Zealand
11	2.99	Shaun Pollock	South Africa
12	2.99	Nathan Astle	New Zealand
13	3.00	Sewnarine Chattergoon	West Indies
14	3.05	Anil Kumble	India
15	3.07	Abdur Rehman	Pakistan
16	3.09	Danish Kaneria	Pakistan
17	3.10	Daniel Vettori	New Zealand
18	3.11	Jon Lewis	England
19	3.12	Matthew Hoggard	England
20	3.13	Shane Warne	Australia
21	3.15	Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka
22	3.16	Hiren Varaiya	Kenya
23	3.20	Ashley Giles	England
24	3.23	Michael Yardy	England
25	3.24	Enamul Haque jnr	Bangladesh
26	3.24	Mohammad Rafique	Bangladesh
27	3.25	Mluleki Nkala	Zimbabwe
28	3.26	Shahid Nazir	Pakistan
29	3.28	Andrew Flintoff	England
30	3.30	Rawl Lewis	West Indies
31	3.30	Nicky Boje	South Africa
32	3.31	Sunil Dhaniram	Canada
33	3.33	Tushar Imran	Bangladesh
34	3.37	Daren Powell	West Indies
35	3.39	Virender Sehwag	India
36	3.39	Pedro Collins	West Indies
37	3.39	Chris Martin	New Zealand
38	3.40	Stuart Clark	Australia
39	3.41	Chris Gayle	West Indies
40	3.45	Dwayne Leverock	Bermuda
41	3.46	Mohammad Hafeez	Pakistan
42	3.47	Stuart MacGill	Australia
43	3.48	Shakib Al Hasan	Bangladesh
44	3.50	Ricky Ponting	Australia
44	3.50	Glen Chapple	England
45	3.50	Kyle Mills	New Zealand
46	3.50	Abdur Razzak	Bangladesh
47	3.53	Munaf Patel	India
48	3.55	Mohammad Asif	Pakistan
49	3.57	Andre Nel	South Africa
50	3.57	Kyle McCallan	Ireland
51	3.63	Paul Hoffmann	Scotland
52	3.67	John Davison	Canada
52	3.67	Shiv Chanderpaul	West Indies
53	3.69	Ian Bradshaw	West Indies
54	3.69	Harbhajan Singh	India
55	3.73	Hasantha Fernando	Sri Lanka
56	3.75	Steven Outerbridge	Bermuda
57	3.76	Piyush Chawla	India
58	3.78	Michael Kasprowicz	Australia
59	3.79	Makhaya Ntini	South Africa
60	3.80	Jacques Kallis	South Africa
61	3.83	Boyd Rankin	England
62	3.85	Umar Gul	Pakistan
63	3.85	Steve Harmison	England
64	3.85	Syed Rasel	Bangladesh
65	3.86	Ian Blackwell	England
66	3.87	Prosper Utseya	Zimbabwe
67	3.87	Brett Lee	Australia
68	3.88	Sanath Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka
69	3.89	Chaminda Vaas	Sri Lanka
70	3.90	Thomas Odoyo	Kenya
71	3.90	Gordon Goudie	Scotland
72	3.92	Steve Tikolo	Kenya
73	3.93	Umar Bhatti	Canada
74	3.95	Sanjayan Thuraisingam	Canada
75	3.95	Nuwan Kulasekara	Sri Lanka
76	3.96	Dwayne Bravo	West Indies
77	3.98	Jeetan Patel	New Zealand
78	4.00	Hashim Amla	South Africa
78	4.00	Taufeeq Umar	Pakistan
78	4.00	Chamara Silva	Sri Lanka
78	4.00	Craig Wright	Scotland
79	4.00	Shane Bond	New Zealand
80	4.00	Austin Codrington	Canada
81	4.03	Mashrafe Mortaza	Bangladesh
82	4.04	Sourav Ganguly	India
83	4.05	James Franklin	New Zealand
84	4.06	Peter Ongondo	Kenya
85	4.08	Dan Cullen	Australia
86	4.08	Sean Williams	Zimbabwe
87	4.09	Gary Brent	Zimbabwe
88	4.11	Dave Mohammed	West Indies
89	4.12	Shahid Afridi	Pakistan
90	4.13	Lasith Malinga	Sri Lanka
91	4.13	Jerome Taylor	West Indies
92	4.14	Durand Soraine	Canada
93	4.15	Brijal Patel	Kenya
94	4.15	Farveez Maharoof	Sri Lanka
95	4.16	George Codrington	Canada
96	4.17	Steven Welsh	Canada
97	4.18	Daan van Bunge	Netherlands
98	4.19	Kevin Sandher	Canada
99	4.20	Marlon Samuels	West Indies
100	4.20	Paul Mooney	Ireland
101	4.22	Ryan Higgins	Zimbabwe
101	4.22	Mehrab Hossain jnr	Bangladesh
102	4.24	Imran Farhat	Pakistan
103	4.25	Sreesanth	India
104	4.25	Dave Langford-Smith	Ireland
105	4.28	Malinga Bandara	Sri Lanka
106	4.30	Shoaib Akhtar	Pakistan
107	4.30	Michael Hussey	Australia
108	4.30	Irfan Pathan	India
109	4.32	Dinesh Mongia	India
110	4.32	Fidel Edwards	West Indies
111	4.33	Zaheer Khan	India
112	4.33	Saleem Mukuddem	Bermuda
113	4.34	Liam Plunkett	England
114	4.34	Shahadat Hossain	Bangladesh
115	4.35	Mark Jonkman	Netherlands
116	4.35	Jamie Dalrymple	England
117	4.36	Dale Steyn	South Africa
118	4.37	Scott Styris	New Zealand
119	4.38	Andrew Hall	South Africa
120	4.39	Dwayne Smith	West Indies
121	4.40	Glenn Rogers	Scotland
122	4.41	Abdul Razzaq	Pakistan
123	4.41	Yuvraj Singh	India
124	4.43	Iftikhar Anjum	Pakistan
125	4.48	Vikram Singh	India
126	4.49	Andrew Symonds	Australia
127	4.50	Salman Butt	Pakistan
128	4.50	Troy Taylor
129	4.51	Ramesh Powar	India
130	4.51	Paul Collingwood	England
131	4.52	Ramnaresh Sarwan	West Indies
132	4.52	Trent Johnston	Ireland
133	4.53	Kevin O'Brien	Ireland
134	4.53	Ed Rainsford	Zimbabwe
135	4.54	Henry Osinde	Canada
136	4.55	Shoaib Malik	Pakistan
137	4.57	Nathan Bracken	Australia
138	4.60	Mohammad Sami	Pakistan
139	4.63	Morne Morkel	South Africa
139	4.63	James Anderson	England
140	4.63	Brad Hogg	Australia
141	4.63	Kaushal Lokuarachchi	Sri Lanka
142	4.64	Dougie Brown	England
143	4.65	Dewald Nel	Scotland
144	4.67	Michael Clarke	Australia
145	4.67	Jimmy Kamande	Kenya
146	4.67	Tim de Leede	Netherlands
147	4.77	Dilhara Fernando	Sri Lanka
148	4.78	Ronald Ebanks
149	4.78	Robin Peterson	South Africa
150	4.79	Ajit Agarkar	India
151	4.80	Sajid Mahmood	England
152	4.81	Shane Watson	Australia
153	4.81	RP Singh	India
154	4.81	Sachin Tendulkar	India
155	4.86	John Mooney	Ireland
156	4.86	Ryan ten Doeschate	Netherlands
157	4.87	Janeiro Tucker	Bermuda
157	4.87	Mitchell Johnson	Australia
158	4.88	Kevin Hurdle	Bermuda
159	4.90	Graeme Smith	South Africa
160	4.91	Kevin Pietersen	England
161	4.92	Blessing Mahwire	Zimbabwe
162	4.93	Irving Romaine	Bermuda
163	4.96	Chris Mpofu	Zimbabwe
164	4.96	Hasan Durham	Bermuda
165	5.00	Daren Ganga	West Indies
165	5.00	Nehemiah Odhiambo	Kenya
165	5.00	Gareth Batty	England
165	5.00	Justin Kemp	South Africa
166	5.02	Anthony Ireland	Zimbabwe
167	5.04	Tillakaratne Dilshan	Sri Lanka
168	5.05	Rajin Saleh	Bangladesh
169	5.07	Tawanda Mupariwa	Zimbabwe
170	5.08	Keith Dabengwa	Zimbabwe
171	5.10	Aftab Ahmed	Bangladesh
172	5.11	Charl Langeveldt	South Africa
173	5.12	David Hemp	Bermuda
174	5.14	Alok Kapali	Bangladesh
175	5.14	James Hopes	Australia
176	5.14	Arshad Khan	Pakistan
177	5.16	Farhad Reza	Bangladesh
178	5.22	John Blain	Scotland
178	5.22	Jacques Rudolph	South Africa
179	5.32	Stuart Matsikenyeri	Zimbabwe
180	5.33	Keegan Meth	Zimbabwe
180	5.33	Delyone Borden	Bermuda
180	5.33	Brad Hodge	Australia
181	5.34	Hamilton Masakadza	Zimbabwe
182	5.38	Luuk van Troost	Netherlands
183	5.39	Johan Botha	South Africa
184	5.41	Brett Dorey	Australia
185	5.43	Pieter Seelaar	Netherlands
186	5.43	Tafadzwa Kamungozi	Zimbabwe
187	5.48	Qaiser Ali	Canada
188	5.52	Dhammika Prasad	Sri Lanka
189	5.55	Gregory Strydom	Zimbabwe
190	5.56	Ruchira Perera	Sri Lanka
191	5.57	Mark Gillespie	New Zealand
192	5.58	Stuart Broad	England
193	5.63	Josephat Ababu	Kenya
194	5.63	Darron Reekers	Netherlands
195	5.64	Steve Massiah	U.S.A.
196	5.65	Michael Mason	New Zealand
197	5.66	Alfred Luseno	Kenya
198	5.66	Naved-ul-Hasan	Pakistan
199	5.67	Manzarul Islam	Bangladesh
200	5.80	Sandeep Jyoti	Canada
201	5.83	Jean-Paul Duminy	South Africa
202	5.84	Mohammad Ashraful	Bangladesh
203	5.84	Chris Cairns	New Zealand
204	5.85	Andrew White	Ireland
205	5.86	Billy Stelling	Netherlands
206	5.86	Zishan Shah
207	5.95	Ryan Steede	Bermuda
208	5.97	Piet Rinke	Zimbabwe
209	6.00	Alex Loudon	England
209	6.00	Wavell Hinds	West Indies
209	6.00	Albie Morkel	South Africa
210	6.02	Vikram Solanki	England
211	6.09	Ross Lyons	Scotland
212	6.10	Rikki Clarke	England
213	6.10	Mohammad Kashif	Netherlands
214	6.11	Deighton Butler	West Indies
215	6.14	Martin Suji	Kenya
216	6.14	Peter Borren	Netherlands
217	6.17	Stefan Kelly	Bermuda
218	6.20	Runako Morton	West Indies
219	6.22	Garnett Kruger	South Africa
220	6.23	Yasir Arafat	Pakistan
221	6.23	Andre Adams	New Zealand
222	6.33	Majid Haq	Scotland
223	6.38	Johan van der Wath	South Africa
224	6.38	Elton Chigumbura	Zimbabwe
225	6.39	Roger Telemachus	South Africa
226	6.44	Don Maxwell	Canada
227	6.50	Jignesh Desai	U.S.A.
228	6.67	Jehan Mubarak	Sri Lanka
229	6.70	Chamu Chibhabha	Zimbabwe
230	6.75	Abdool Samad	Canada
231	6.77	Darren Gough	England
232	6.78	Mick Lewis	Australia
233	6.80	AB de Villiers	South Africa
233	6.80	Kalpesh Patel	Kenya
234	6.83	Malachi Jones	Bermuda
235	6.86	Tony Suji	Kenya
236	7.00	Tino Best	West Indies
236	7.00	Tim Bresnan	England
237	7.07	Ryan Watson	Scotland
238	7.11	Murali Kartik	India
239	7.15	Ian Bell	England
240	7.25	Russel Arnold	Sri Lanka
241	7.39	Kabir Ali	England
242	7.39	Esteban Nino
243	7.50	Khaled Mahmud	Bangladesh
244	7.54	Monde Zondeki	South Africa
245	7.67	Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka
246	7.75	Tyron Henderson	South Africa
247	8.43	Nazmul Hossain	Bangladesh
248	8.60	Tapash Baisya	Bangladesh
249	8.71	Akalanka Ganegama	Sri Lanka
250	9.00	Lendl Simmons	West Indies
251	10.00	Suresh Raina	India
252	11.18	Collins Obuya	Kenya
253	13.00	Gautam Gambhir	India
253	13.00	MS Dhoni	India
254	20.00	Tanmay Mishra	Kenya