TOP 3 Best Bowlers in the T20 World Cup 2024

A few months back, we witnessed batters dominating in the shorter format of the game with their aggressive batting intent and orthodox shots in the 17th edition of the IPL (Indian Premier League). But after the conclusion of IPL 2024, we witnessed several match-winning performances by the bowlers in the 9th edition of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup, played on slow and steady pitches of USA and West Indies. Through this news piece, we will take a look at 3 best bowlers from the ICC Men's T20 World Cup.

1. Fazalhaq Farooqui

On number 1, we have Afghanistan's fast bowler Fazalhaq Farooqui, who impressed a lot in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 with his incredible bowling by picking most wickets in the Marquee event and played a crucial role in helping his team to reach in the first semi-finals of an ICC event by defeating Australia and New Zealand in the group stage games.

Fazalhaq Farooqui is playing his second ICC Men’s T20 World Cup. But after looking at his current form and skills, he doesn’t look like a 23-year-old fast bowler. The Left-arm fast bowler was in sensational form in the ongoing tournament, where he finished the tournament by picking 17 wickets in 8 games with an efficient economy of 6.31 by conceding just 160 runs in his 25 overs of spell throughout the tournament. 

2. Arshdeep Singh

After Zaheer Khan announced his retirement from international cricket, the Indian team searched for a left-arm fast bowler for years, who holds a great ability in swing bowling and beating the batsman with his unpredictable swing. But after a long wait of 12 years since the legendary bowler retired from international cricket. However, the Indian team has found a replacement for Zaheer Khan in the place of Arshdeep Singh, who impressed everyone with his performance in the 9th edition of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup. Despite playing 1 match less than the other players, he finished the tournament with 17 wickets in 8 games with an efficient economy of 7.

While opening the bowling spell of Indian team, Arshdeep put pressure on the opposition batters with his swing bowling and took crucial wickets along with the Indian pacer Jasprit Burmah in the first 6 overs of the powerplay.

Arshdeep's Match-winning bowling spell against USA and Afghanistan, helped the Indian team to reach in the knock-it stage of the tournament.

3. Jasprit Bumrah

Jasprit Bumrah is regarded as one of the best bowlers in the world. Having unorthodox action and great skill to ball toe-crushing yorkers in the death overs makes him different from others.  In just 8 years after his debut for the Indian team, he is seen leading the bowling attack of Men in Blue in all three formats. 

After making a comeback into the Indian team in the T20I series against Ireland last year, Burmah has performed brilliantly in every format of the game for Indian team weather it's the white ball format or the shortest format of the game, he was leading wicket-taker in every format, which also helped the Indian team to reach in the finals of the ICC Men's World Cup 2023. However, after picking the most wickets in the Indian Premier League from Mumbai Indians franchise in the 2024 edition, Bumrah took the Indian team to the finals on his shoulder by bowling a match-changing spell against arch-rivals Pakistan, where they were required 40 runs to win in 36 balls, having 7 wickets in hand, Bumrah 2nd over of spell change the game for the Men in Blue, when he took the wicket of Md. Rizwan scored 31 runs in 41 balls, leading to the victory of the Indian team. 

He did the same in the finals against South Africa when all others lost hope of winning, he changed the game with his bowling when they were required 30 off 30 balls after Heinrich Klassen, smashed Axar Patel for 24 runs. He not only put pressure on the opposition with his accurate bowling but also picked the crucial wickets of Marco Yensen and Aiden Markram at the end.

Bumrah was awarded with Player of the Series award for his incredible bowling in ICC Men's T20 World Cup, where he finished with 15 wickets in 8 games, having an efficient economy of 4.