5 bowlers with most maidens in T20s
Since its inception on Feb 17, 2005, Twenty20 cricket has revolutionized the game of cricket and has sustained continuous popularity amongst cricket fans. Young fans are persuaded to watch Twenty20 cricket rather than Test cricket, as the shorter format offers a plenty of thrill and excitement in 3 hours. For the fans to get entertained and to get the value for the money, they expect a plenty of runs to be scored, with almost a boundary or six in every ball. This hunger for runs inexorably makes the bowler the prey. The great Dale Steyn was belted all around the park by his compatriot AB de Villiers in the 2014 IPL season, such is the plight of bowlers in Twenty20 cricket!
The rules of the Twenty20 cricket mostly favors the batsmen. Yet there are bowlers who stamped their authority in Twenty20 and managed to be very successful. Every dot ball in Twenty20 cricket is considered as gold, imagine six dot balls in an over? Precious! Isn’t it?
Now, here is the list of bowlers with the most number of maiden overs in Twenty20 Cricket.
#5 Shakib Al Hasan – 14 Maidens
The gritty all-rounder from Bangladesh is a fiddly bowler to face. Shakib has got that ability in him to provide regular breakthroughs. You seldom find batsmen hitting him out of the park as most of the time, they end up getting out. Hence batsmen hardly ever take a chance in his bowling.
His natural ability to hit the rough by bowling over the wicket has troubled the batsmen to a great extent. Though he is considered as the batting mainstay for Bangladesh, he had consistently performed well in the bowling department as well. He has bowled 14 maiden overs so far in Twenty20s, which is the fifth most for any bowler in the shorter format.