• By Namrata Vijay
  • Fri, 17 May 2024 01:40 PM (IST)
  • Source:JND

The Indian Premier League, which is one of the premier T20 competition, has captivated the Indian audience since its first edition in 2008. One of the top individual honors in the tournament is the IPL Orange Cap, which is given to a batter who becomes the highest run-scorer in every season. On the other hand, the purple cap is given to a bowler, who takes the most wicket in a season. In IPL 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru's star batter Virat Kohli is currently leading the Orange Cap race whereas Punjab Kings bowler Harshal Patel is currently the Purple cap holder. 

IPL Orange Cap: Winners List

Gujarat Titans star opener Shubman Gill won the Orange cap last year as he had scored 890 runs after playing in 17 matches, which also included three hundreds. Gill's record is the second highest by any batter in one season of the tournament and is just behind Virat Kohli, who scored 973 runs in the 2016 season.

Australia's explosive opener David Warner has won the Orange cap the most number of times, that is, three. He was the highest run-getter in three seasons -- 2015, 2017 and 2019 -- when he used to play for SRH.

Let's take a look at the year-wise Orange cap winners in the history of the tournament:

Season Player Matches Runs
2008 Shaun Marsh (KXIP) 11 616
2009 Matthew Hayden (CSK) 12 572
2010 Sachin Tendulkar (MI) 15 618
2011 Chris Gayle (RCB) 12 608
2012 Chris Gayle (RCB) 15 733
2013 Michael Hussey (CSK) 16 733
2014 Robin Uthappa (KKR) 16 660
2015 David Warner (SRH) 14 562
2016 Virat Kohli (RCB) 16 973
2017 David Warner (SRH) 14 641
2018 Kane Williamson (SRH) 17 735
2019 David Warner (SRH) 12 692
2020 KL Rahul (KXIP) 14 670
2021 Ruturaj Gaikwad (CSK) 16 635
2022 Jos Buttler (RR) 17 863
2023 Shubman Gill (GT) 17 890
2024 Not Declared Not Declared Not Declared

IPL Purple Cap: List Of Winners

A bowler who takes the highest number of wickets in a single season usually wins the Purple cap. Gujarat Titans star pacer Mohammed Shami had won the Purple cap last season as he had taken 28 wickets after playing in 17 matches despite his team becoming the runners-up at the summit clash last year.

Let's take a look at the year-wise Purple cap winners in the history of the tournament:

Season Player Matches Wickets
2008 Sohail Tanvir (RR) 11 22
2009 RP Singh (DC) 16 23
2010 Pragyan Ojha (DC) 16 21
2011 Lasith Malinga (MI) 16 28
2012 Morne Morkel (DD) 16 25
2013 Dwayne Bravo (CSK) 18 32
2014 Mohit Sharma (CSK) 16 23
2015 Dwayne Bravo (CSK) 16 26
2016 Bhuvneshwar Kumar (SRH) 17 23
2017 Bhuvneshwar Kumar (SRH) 14 26
2018 Andrew Tye (KXIP) 14 24
2019 Imran Tahir (CSK) 17 26
2020 Kagiso Rabada (DC) 17 30
2021 Harshal Patel (RCB) 15 32
2022 Yuzvendra Chahal (RR) 17 27
2023 Mohammed Shami (GT) 17 28
2024 Not Declared Not Declared Not Declared