Best Economy – Complete Cricket Stats & Records

This page lists the players with the best economy in cricket history. These records highlight the most consistent and impactful performances across different eras.

Position	Best Economy	Player Name	Team Name
1	0.00	Robin Uthappa	India
1	1.88	Bill Edrich	England
1	0.25	Pankaj Roy	India
1	0.00	Neil Harvey	Australia
1	1.10	Neil Harvey	Australia
1	0.00	Frank Mooney	New Zealand
1	0.00	Imtiaz Ahmed	Pakistan
1	0.00	Neil Harvey	Australia
1	1.45	Tony Lock	England
1	0.98	Denis Atkinson	West Indies
1	0.00	John Holt	West Indies
1	0.50	Rohan Kanhai	West Indies
1	0.00	Neil Harvey	Australia
1	1.00	Colin Cowdrey	England
1	0.00	Bill Lawry	Australia
1	1.00	Vijay Mehra	United Arab Emirates
1	1.00	Derek Varnals	South Africa
1	0.33	Peter Lashley	West Indies
1	1.00	Robin Bynoe	West Indies
1	0.00	Bruce Murray	New Zealand
1	0.00	Roger Prideaux	England
1	0.00	Ian Redpath	Australia
1	1.00	Zaheer Abbas	Pakistan
1	0.00	Terry Jarvis	New Zealand
1	1.00	Zaheer Abbas	Pakistan
1	1.27	Clive Lloyd	West Indies
1	0.00	Wally Edwards	Australia
1	1.44	Majid Khan	Pakistan
1	1.29	Sunil Gavaskar	India
1	1.00	Derek Randall	England
1	0.00	Kim Hughes	Australia
1	0.67	Azhar Khan	Pakistan
1	0.75	Kim Hughes	Australia
1	0.00	Ashok Malhotra	India
1	0.00	Ashok Malhotra	India
1	0.00	Chris Tavaré	England
1	0.00	Clive Lloyd	West Indies
1	0.00	Dean Jones	Australia
1	0.77	Arun Lal	India
1	1.50	Martyn Moxon	England
1	1.25	Woorkeri Raman	India
1	0.00	Mark Greatbatch	New Zealand
1	2.00	Sir Richie Richardson	West Indies
1	1.50	Robin Smith	England
1	0.00	David Boon	Australia
1	0.00	Jonty Rhodes	South Africa
1	0.00	Michael Slater	Australia
1	0.00	Ricky Ponting	Australia
1	0.00	Matthew Elliott	Australia
1	1.27	Jimmy Adams	West Indies
1	1.00	Gary Stead	New Zealand
1	1.00	VVS Laxman	India
1	0.67	Hashan Tillakaratne	Sri Lanka
1	0.00	Martin van Jaarsveld	South Africa
1	1.00	Hashan Tillakaratne	Sri Lanka
1	0.50	Nathan Astle	New Zealand
1	0.50	Boeta Dippenaar	South Africa
1	1.71	Younis Khan	Pakistan
1	0.00	Mohammad Yousuf	Pakistan
1	1.00	MS Dhoni	India
1	0.00	Jamie How	New Zealand
1	0.00	Yasir Hameed	Pakistan
1	1.00	Imrul Kayes	Bangladesh
1	0.00	Matthew Wade	Australia
1	0.00	James Shannon	Ireland
1	0.00	Robin Uthappa	India
1	0.00	Adam Lyth	England
1	0.00	Mominul Haque	Bangladesh
1	0.00	Shan Masood	Pakistan
1	0.00	Ambati Rayudu	India
1	1.00	Koralegedera Bandara	Sri Lanka
1	0.00	Azhar Ali	Pakistan
1	0.00	Steven Smith	Australia
1	0.00	Ross Taylor	New Zealand
1	1.00	Cheteshwar Pujara	India
1	1.00	Wamkelwa Dlamini	Eswatini
1	2.00	Kraigg Brathwaite	West Indies
1	0.00	Monkey Hornby	England
1	2.57	Scott Boland	Australia
1	1.88	Bill Edrich	England
1	0.25	Pankaj Roy	India
1	0.00	Neil Harvey	Australia
1	1.10	Neil Harvey	Australia
1	0.00	Frank Mooney	New Zealand
1	0.00	Imtiaz Ahmed	Pakistan
1	0.00	Neil Harvey	Australia
1	1.45	Tony Lock	England
1	0.98	Denis Atkinson	West Indies
1	0.00	John Holt	West Indies
1	0.50	Rohan Kanhai	West Indies
1	0.00	Neil Harvey	Australia
1	1.00	Colin Cowdrey	England
1	0.00	Bill Lawry	Australia
1	1.00	Vijay Mehra	United Arab Emirates
1	1.00	Derek Varnals	South Africa
1	0.33	Peter Lashley	West Indies
1	1.00	Robin Bynoe	West Indies
1	0.00	Bruce Murray	New Zealand
1	0.00	Roger Prideaux	England
1	0.00	Ian Redpath	Australia
1	1.00	Zaheer Abbas	Pakistan
1	0.00	Terry Jarvis	New Zealand
1	1.00	Zaheer Abbas	Pakistan
1	1.27	Clive Lloyd	West Indies
1	0.00	Zaheer Abbas	Pakistan
1	1.44	Majid Khan	Pakistan
1	1.29	Sunil Gavaskar	India
1	0.67	Barry Wood	England
1	0.00	Kim Hughes	Australia
1	0.67	Azhar Khan	Pakistan
1	0.75	Kim Hughes	Australia
1	0.00	Allan Lamb	England
1	0.00	Ashok Malhotra	India
1	0.00	Chris Tavaré	England
1	0.00	Gus Logie	West Indies
1	0.00	Dean Jones	Australia
1	0.77	Arun Lal	India
1	1.50	Martyn Moxon	England
1	1.25	Woorkeri Raman	India
1	0.00	Mark Greatbatch	New Zealand
1	1.73	Wasim Akram	Pakistan
1	0.00	Dave Houghton	Zimbabwe
1	0.00	David Boon	Australia
1	0.00	Jonty Rhodes	South Africa
1	1.44	Gary Kirsten	South Africa
1	0.00	Ricky Ponting	Australia
1	0.00	Matthew Elliott	Australia
1	1.00	VVS Laxman	India
1	0.00	Rahul Dravid	India
1	0.00	Wajahatullah Wasti	Pakistan
1	0.67	Hashan Tillakaratne	Sri Lanka
1	1.00	Ajay Ratra	India
1	1.00	Yuvraj Singh	India
1	0.00	Shiv Chanderpaul	West Indies
1	0.50	Boeta Dippenaar	South Africa
1	1.25	Younis Khan	Pakistan
1	1.67	Michael Clarke	Australia
1	0.00	Xavier Marshall	West Indies
1	0.00	Jamie How	New Zealand
1	0.00	Yasir Hameed	Pakistan
1	1.00	Imrul Kayes	Bangladesh
1	0.00	Matthew Wade	Australia
1	1.50	Alviro Petersen	South Africa
1	1.50	Abdur Razzak	Bangladesh
1	0.00	Virat Kohli	India
1	0.00	Mominul Haque	Bangladesh
1	0.00	Shan Masood	Pakistan
1	0.88	Angelo Mathews	Sri Lanka
1	1.33	R Pisal	Romania
1	0.00	Azhar Ali	Pakistan
1	0.00	Steven Smith	Australia
1	0.00	Ross Taylor	New Zealand
1	0.91	Shubman Gill	India
1	2.00	Harry Tector	Ireland
1	1.84	Rathnayake Rathnayake	Sri Lanka
1	2.00	Joe Root	England
1	0.00	Ashok Malhotra	India
1	2.75	Alan Thomson	Australia
1	2.94	John Snow	England
1	1.91	Lance Gibbs	West Indies
1	2.35	Asif Masood	Pakistan
1	0.00	Wally Edwards	Australia
1	1.00	Wasim Raja	Pakistan
1	2.12	Gary Cosier	Australia
1	1.50	David Lloyd	England
1	1.00	Clive Lloyd	West Indies
1	2.56	Michael Holding	West Indies
1	1.00	Javed Miandad	Pakistan
1	0.00	Ashok Malhotra	India
1	0.00	Glenn Turner	New Zealand
1	2.50	Ranjan Madugalle	Sri Lanka
1	0.00	Clive Lloyd	West Indies
1	2.45	Golam Faruq	Bangladesh
1	1.67	Javed Miandad	Pakistan
1	1.44	Iqbal Qasim	Pakistan
1	2.90	Martin Snedden	New Zealand
1	2.62	Saleem Jaffar	Pakistan
1	3.02	Angus Fraser	England
1	0.50	Jimmy Adams	West Indies
1	2.00	Mike Gatting	England
1	1.00	Hashan Tillakaratne	Sri Lanka
1	0.00	Michael Slater	Australia
1	2.70	Chris Silverwood	England
1	0.00	Hitesh Modi	Kenya
1	3.10	Makhaya Ntini	South Africa
1	1.80	Saeed Anwar	Pakistan
1	1.90	Adam Dale	Australia
1	1.82	Jonty Rhodes	South Africa
1	0.00	Martin van Jaarsveld	South Africa
1	1.86	Dinusha Fernando	Sri Lanka
1	2.55	Wavell Hinds	West Indies
1	0.00	Shiv Chanderpaul	West Indies
1	2.30	Andre Botha	Ireland
1	0.00	Mohammad Yousuf	Pakistan
1	1.80	Matthew Parker	Scotland
1	0.00	Kevin Pietersen	England
1	1.50	Ross Taylor	New Zealand
1	1.00	Farhad Reza	Bangladesh
1	2.13	Alasdair Evans	Scotland
1	2.00	Rohit Sharma	India
1	0.00	Robin Uthappa	India
1	1.33	Yamin Ahmadzai	Afghanistan
1	2.00	Jayant Yadav	India
1	0.00	Ambati Rayudu	India
1	2.00	Shreyas Iyer	India
1	1.00	Basant Regmi	Nepal
1	2.60	Mohammad Hasnain	Pakistan
1	1.80	Calum MacLeod	Scotland
1	2.00	Shreyas Iyer	India
1	2.00	Yasir Chowdhury	Bangladesh
1	2.29	Matthew Humphreys	Ireland
1	1.83	Nasum Ahmed	Bangladesh
1	3.55	Liam Dawson	England
1	1.00	John Campbell	West Indies
1	4.00	Paul Collingwood	England
1	1.00	Keith Dabengwa	Zimbabwe
1	2.00	Jerome Taylor	West Indies
1	2.00	Steven Welsh	Canada
1	3.75	Kemar Roach	West Indies
1	2.60	Nuwan Pradeep	Sri Lanka
1	2.25	Ravindra Jadeja	India
1	2.33	Amrit Bhattarai	Nepal
1	0.00	James Shannon	Ireland
1	3.50	Mirwais Ashraf	Afghanistan
1	3.00	Albie Morkel	South Africa
1	2.75	Harbhajan Singh	India
1	2.50	Naveen-ul-Haq	Afghanistan
1	4.33	Tymal Mills	England
1	1.00	John Campbell	West Indies
1	1.50	Bhuvan Karki	Nepal
1	1.33	Rishiv Joshi	Canada
1	0.50	Lucky Ali	Denmark
1	1.00	Yadwinder Singh	Hungary
1	1.00	Wamkelwa Dlamini	Eswatini
1	2.00	Dhananjaya de Silva	Sri Lanka
2	4.25	Wanindu Hasaranga	Sri Lanka
2	2.39	S Murari	Costa Rica
2	2.00	K Nestor	Gibraltar
2	1.82	V Ravindran	Hungary
2	1.00	Kushal Bhurtel	Nepal
2	1.50	R Agamiire	Uganda
2	3.00	Mitchell Marsh	Australia
2	1.00	Koralegedera Bandara	Sri Lanka
2	4.75	Joe Denly	England
2	3.00	Dhananjaya de Silva	Sri Lanka
2	3.00	Kane Williamson	New Zealand
2	3.86	Nizakat Khan	Hong Kong
2	4.00	Steven Smith	Australia
2	2.73	Umar Gul	Pakistan
2	3.40	Brendan Taylor	Zimbabwe
2	2.25	Garey Mathurin	West Indies
2	2.50	Faf du Plessis	South Africa
2	4.25	David Bernard	West Indies
2	2.81	Dwayne Smith	West Indies
2	2.50	Tamauri Tucker	Bermuda
2	3.71	Dale Steyn	South Africa
2	4.75	Andre Nel	South Africa
2	1.00	Wamkelwa Dlamini	Eswatini
2	1.86	Mohammad Hassan	Bangladesh
2	3.90	Adil Rashid	England
2	2.36	Xavier Bartlett	Australia
2	2.00	Rinku Singh	India
2	2.00	Vishnu Sukumaran	United Arab Emirates
2	2.07	Josh Hazlewood	Australia
2	3.11	Kushal Malla	Nepal
2	2.64	Adrian Neill	Scotland
2	2.25	Amir Hayat	United Arab Emirates
2	1.00	Asghar Stanikzai	Afghanistan
2	2.52	Mudassar Bukhari	Netherlands
2	1.33	Mthokozisi Shezi	South Africa
2	1.83	Tim Bresnan	England
2	2.15	Stuart Thompson	Ireland
2	2.36	Majid Haq	Scotland
2	2.00	Thilan Samaraweera	Sri Lanka
2	2.00	Francis Otieno	Kenya
2	2.38	Sudeep Tyagi	India
2	2.20	Brett Geeves	Australia
2	1.50	Ashwell Prince	South Africa
2	2.00	Runako Morton	West Indies
2	2.60	Mark Cosgrove	Australia
2	2.65	Ian Bell	England
2	2.00	Craig McMillan	New Zealand
2	2.79	Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka
2	2.20	Trevor Gripper	Zimbabwe
2	2.35	Sir Curtly Ambrose	West Indies
2	2.50	Peter Ongondo	Kenya
2	3.14	Angus Fraser	England
2	1.50	Mujahid Jamshed	Pakistan
2	2.85	Shahzad Altaf	United Arab Emirates
2	2.39	Pat Symcox	South Africa
2	2.75	Irfan Bhatti	Pakistan
2	2.58	Merv Hughes	Australia
2	2.94	Fanie de Villiers	South Africa
2	3.33	Keith Arthurton	West Indies
2	2.00	Andrew Jones	New Zealand
2	2.67	Carlisle Best	West Indies
2	3.22	Terry Alderman	Australia
2	2.33	Mohinder Amarnath	India
2	2.70	Sir Viv Richards	West Indies
2	1.00	Sir Richie Richardson	West Indies
2	2.79	Manoj Prabhakar	India
2	0.67	John Wright	New Zealand
2	1.50	Chris Tavaré	England
2	1.60	Chris Old	England
2	2.83	Dennis Lillee	Australia
2	1.50	Aamer Hameed	Pakistan
2	1.83	Graeme Porter	Australia
2	2.27	Derek Underwood	England
2	2.83	Sir Andy Roberts	West Indies
2	1.42	Bishan Bedi	India
2	3.00	Geoff Arnold	England
2	2.27	Clive Lloyd	West Indies
2	2.96	Greg Chappell	Australia
2	0.00	Robin Uthappa	India
2	2.97	Graham McKenzie	Australia
2	2.57	Scott Boland	Australia
2	1.92	Daryl Mitchell	New Zealand
2	2.25	Andy McBrine	Ireland
2	1.00	Kuldeep Yadav	India
2	0.00	Travis Head	Australia
2	0.00	Mahmudul Joy	Bangladesh
2	0.50	Kane Williamson	New Zealand
2	1.71	Wiaan Mulder	South Africa
2	1.00	Asad Shafiq	Pakistan
2	0.00	Kieran Powell	West Indies
2	0.67	Alex Hales	England
2	0.00	Adam Lyth	England
2	1.81	Keegan Meth	Zimbabwe
2	1.80	Shikhar Dhawan	India
2	0.00	Daniel Flynn	New Zealand
2	0.00	Raqibul Hasan	Bangladesh
2	1.25	Paul Collingwood	England
2	1.50	Michael Hussey	Australia
2	1.00	MS Dhoni	India
2	1.75	Tillakaratne Dilshan	Sri Lanka
2	1.59	Hamilton Masakadza	Zimbabwe
2	2.02	Nathan Astle	New Zealand
2	0.50	Gary Kirsten	South Africa
2	1.00	Hashan Tillakaratne	Sri Lanka
2	1.00	Hasan Raza	Pakistan
2	1.40	Aravinda de Silva	Sri Lanka
2	1.00	VVS Laxman	India
2	0.00	Hashan Tillakaratne	Sri Lanka
2	1.00	Graeme Hick	England
2	0.00	Graham Thorpe	England
2	0.50	Jacques Kallis	South Africa
2	1.50	Ijaz Ahmed	Pakistan
2	0.50	Alistair Campbell	Zimbabwe
2	0.00	Damien Martyn	Australia
2	1.78	Imran Khan	Pakistan
2	1.00	Hashan Tillakaratne	Sri Lanka
2	0.80	Arjuna Ranatunga	Sri Lanka
2	1.36	Tom Moody	Australia
2	1.50	Ken Rutherford	New Zealand
2	1.00	Sir Richie Richardson	West Indies
2	0.00	Sir Richie Richardson	West Indies
2	0.00	John Reid	New Zealand
2	0.00	Tim Robinson	England
2	0.00	Majid Khan	Pakistan
2	0.00	Qasim Umar	Pakistan
2	1.17	Geoff Boycott	England
2	1.15	Greg Chappell	Australia
2	0.80	Lawrence Rowe	West Indies
2	1.00	Derek Randall	England
2	1.33	Geoff Boycott	England
2	1.50	Farrukh Zaman	Pakistan
2	1.00	Anshuman Gaekwad	India
2	1.83	Mushtaq Mohammad	Pakistan
2	1.82	Bishan Bedi	India
2	1.00	Sunil Gavaskar	India
2	1.00	Rohan Kanhai	West Indies
2	1.61	Trevor Goddard	South Africa
2	0.40	Hanif Mohammad	Pakistan
2	0.00	Seymour Nurse	West Indies
2	1.34	Billy Ibadulla	Pakistan
2	0.50	Mike Shrimpton	New Zealand
2	1.34	Bapu Nadkarni	India
2	1.41	Tom Veivers	Australia
2	1.16	Joe Solomon	West Indies
2	1.00	Vijay Manjrekar	India
2	0.00	John Sparling	New Zealand
2	1.00	Sir Conrad Hunte	West Indies
2	1.10	Fazal Mahmood	Pakistan
2	1.00	Jim Burke	Australia
2	1.84	John Goddard	West Indies
2	0.25	Alan Moss	England
2	1.00	Murray Chapple	New Zealand
2	0.80	Vijay Manjrekar	India
2	1.37	Sir Clyde Walcott	West Indies
2	1.00	Bert Sutcliffe	New Zealand
2	1.00	Reg Simpson	England
2	1.91	Sir Alec Bedser	England
2	3.35	Michael Neser	Australia
2	0.00	Wilf Barber	England
2	2.00	Alain Toube	Cameroon
2	0.00	Mahmudul Joy	Bangladesh
2	1.00	Yadwinder Singh	Hungary
2	0.00	Travis Head	Australia
2	0.50	Kane Williamson	New Zealand
2	1.33	R Pisal	Romania
2	0.88	Angelo Mathews	Sri Lanka
2	0.00	Kieran Powell	West Indies
2	0.67	Alex Hales	England
2	1.80	Stiaan van Zyl	South Africa
2	1.33	Mthokozisi Shezi	South Africa
2	1.50	Alviro Petersen	South Africa
2	0.50	Schofield Haigh	England
2	1.71	Paul Harris	South Africa
2	0.00	Raqibul Hasan	Bangladesh
2	2.00	Ross Taylor	New Zealand
2	1.00	Alastair Cook	England
2	1.50	Ashwell Prince	South Africa
2	2.09	Jason Gillespie	Australia
2	1.90	Ricky Ponting	Australia
2	0.50	Gary Kirsten	South Africa
2	2.11	Nuwan Kulasekara	Sri Lanka
2	1.00	Hasan Raza	Pakistan
2	1.52	Dinuka Hettiarachchi	Sri Lanka
2	1.00	Mark Ramprakash	England
2	1.75	Nadeem Khan	Pakistan
2	1.63	Dinanath Ramnarine	West Indies
2	0.00	Hitesh Modi	Kenya
2	1.44	Jayantha Silva	Sri Lanka
2	1.44	Gary Kirsten	South Africa
2	0.50	Graham Thorpe	England
2	0.00	Damien Martyn	Australia
2	1.84	Graham Gooch	England
2	2.25	Dean Jones	Australia
2	1.50	Sir Richie Richardson	West Indies
2	2.15	Peter Sleep	Australia
2	1.70	Iqbal Qasim	Pakistan
2	0.00	John Reid	New Zealand
2	1.40	Rizwan-uz-Zaman	Pakistan
2	0.33	Sir Richie Richardson	West Indies
2	0.00	Tim Robinson	England
2	0.00	Glenn Turner	New Zealand
2	0.00	Allan Lamb	England
2	1.17	Geoff Boycott	England
2	0.80	Lawrence Rowe	West Indies
2	1.00	Clive Lloyd	West Indies
2	1.00	Mike Gatting	England
2	1.33	Geoff Boycott	England
2	1.50	Farrukh Zaman	Pakistan
2	0.00	Zaheer Abbas	Pakistan
2	1.83	Mushtaq Mohammad	Pakistan
2	1.82	Bishan Bedi	India
2	1.00	Sunil Gavaskar	India
2	1.00	Rohan Kanhai	West Indies
2	0.40	Hanif Mohammad	Pakistan
2	0.00	Seymour Nurse	West Indies
2	1.61	Trevor Goddard	South Africa
2	1.34	Billy Ibadulla	Pakistan
2	1.34	Bapu Nadkarni	India
2	0.50	Mike Shrimpton	New Zealand
2	1.00	Vijay Manjrekar	India
2	1.41	Tom Veivers	Australia
2	1.16	Joe Solomon	West Indies
2	0.00	John Sparling	New Zealand
2	1.00	Sir Conrad Hunte	West Indies
2	1.10	Fazal Mahmood	Pakistan
2	1.00	Jim Burke	Australia
2	1.84	John Goddard	West Indies
2	0.25	Alan Moss	England
2	1.00	Murray Chapple	New Zealand
2	0.80	Vijay Manjrekar	India
2	1.37	Sir Clyde Walcott	West Indies
2	1.00	Bert Sutcliffe	New Zealand
2	1.00	Reg Simpson	England
2	1.91	Sir Alec Bedser	England
2	0.00	Wally Edwards	Australia
3	0.00	Monkey Hornby	England
3	2.04	Sonny Ramadhin	West Indies
3	1.31	Michael Melle	South Africa
3	1.27	Hiralal Gaekwad	India
3	1.56	Roy Tattersall	England
3	1.60	Gerry Gomez	West Indies
3	1.00	Vijay Mehra	United Arab Emirates
3	1.00	Tom Graveney	England
3	1.31	Ray Illingworth	England
3	1.46	Alan Moss	England
3	1.93	Trevor Goddard	South Africa
3	1.56	Reg Scarlett	West Indies
3	0.33	Joe Solomon	West Indies
3	1.56	Polly Umrigar	India
3	1.94	Barry Knight	England
3	1.00	Geoff Boycott	England
3	1.42	Trevor Goddard	South Africa
3	1.50	Clive Lloyd	West Indies
3	1.47	Trevor Goddard	South Africa
3	1.00	Colin Cowdrey	England
3	1.00	Mohammad Ilyas	Pakistan
3	1.33	Maurice Foster	West Indies
3	2.17	Barry Richards	South Africa
3	1.00	Raphick Jumadeen	West Indies
3	2.00	Nawab of Pataudi	India
3	1.89	Sir Garry Sobers	West Indies
3	1.00	Anshuman Gaekwad	India
3	1.71	Albert Padmore	West Indies
3	1.77	Erapalli Prasanna	India
3	1.00	Shafiq Ahmed	Pakistan