What is the Purple Cap in the Indian Premier League?

An abundance of the most skilled bowlers in T20 cricket have competed in the Indian Premier League and the Purple Cap is the ultimate individual prize on offer for those making a difference with the ball.

What is the Purple Cap in the IPL?

The Purple Cap is awarded to the leading wicket-taker in the Indian Premier League.

Mirroring the Orange Cap award, the bowler with the most wickets during the season will wear the Purple Cap when fielding, before the leading wicket-taker at the end of the tournament is officially awarded the Purple Cap for the season.

In case two or more bowlers are tied on the most amount of wickets, the bowler with the superior economy rate will receive the Purple Cap.

Who has been awarded the Purple Cap?

Some of the most prolific bowlers in Indian Premier League history are recipients of the Purple Cap.

Dwayne Bravo, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Harshal Patel are the only players to win the award more than once, while Bravo and Patel share the record for the most amount of wickets taken in an individual season with 32.

The likes of Lasith Malinga, Yuzvendra Chahal and Mohammed Shami have all collected the Purple Cap

Full list of Purple Cap winners

• 2008: Sohail Tanvir - 22 wickets
• 2009: R.P. Singh - 23 wickets
• 2010: Pragyan Ojha - 21 wickets
• 2011: Lasith Malinga - 28 wickets
• 2012: Morne Morkel - 25 wickets
• 2013: Dwayne Bravo - 32 wickets
• 2014: Mohit Sharma - 23 wickets
• 2015: Dwayne Bravo - 26 wickets
• 2016: Bhuvneshwar Kumar - 23 wickets
• 2017: Bhuvneshwar Kumar - 26 wickets
• 2018: Andrew Tye - 24 wickets
• 2019: Imran Tahir - 26 wickets
• 2020: Kagiso Rabada - 30 wickets
• 2021: Harshal Patel - 32 wickets
• 2022: Yuzvendra Chahal - 27 wickets
• 2023: Mohammed Shami - 28 wickets
• 2024: Harshal Patel - 24 wickets

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