5 Best bowling figures in IPL history

Despite ending up on the losing side, Rising Pune Supergiants' Adam Zampa did something that had only been done once before in the history of the Indian Premier League. Zampa's six-wicket haul gave him the best bowling figures by an Australian in a T20 match beating Ben Laughlin's 6/28 but where does his figures rank among the best in the IPL?

There have been some legends of the game who have taken part in the tournament but have any of them done enough to feature in this list. Let us take a look at the best bowling figures in the history of the IPL.

Note: For the purpose of this list, if the bowlers are level in terms of wickets taken, the bowler with the least number of runs conceded is considered to have better figures.

Lasith Malinga

Malinga even managed to make Sehwag play out a maiden

What makes Lasith Malinga so special as a T20 bowler is his ability to take the pitch out of the equation when he comes on to bowl. While there are some who thrive on helpful conditions and flatter to deceive on flat decks, the Sri Lankan pacer has shown that he is extremely effective on any condition as Delhi Daredevils found out in 2011.

Virender Sehwag had won the toss against Mumbai Indians and on what looked like a belter decided to bat first. After scoring 10 off the first over, that certainly looked to be true. But that was when Malinga got the ball. After Sehwag got off strike off the first ball, he removed David Warner and debutant Unmukt Chand in the space of three balls.

His second one was even better even if it ended in him not picking up a wicket as he managed to bowl a maiden to the Delhi captain. After two overs, his figures read 2-1-1-2. But that wasn't the end of his destruction, he picked up the crucial wicket of Venugopal Rao, just when it looked as though DD were going to crawl past 100 and added Morne Morkel two balls later.

In his final over, he finished the job as he got rid of Ashok Dinda for a five-ball duck and claimed the third-best IPL figures at the time. However, his figures of 5/13 were pushed down a place barely two weeks later.