Purple Cap in IPL 2024: The bowlers with the most wickets

Punjab Kings’ Harshal Patel, with 24 wickets from 14 matches, won the Purple Cap in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024.

The league's top wicket-taker at the end of the season is presented the Purple Cap award and some of the best foreign players and promising Indian bowlers competed for the honour in IPL 2024.

A total of 14 bowlers have had the honour of winning the Purple Cap at the end of the season in 17 editions. Harshal Patel, who won the Purple Cap in 2021 with RCB, became only the third bowler in the IPL history to win the Purple Cap for the second time.

Dwayne Bravo, playing for CSK in 2013 and 2015, and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, for Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2016 and 2017, are the bowlers who have also won the Purple Cap twice.

Purple Cap in IPL 2024

Bravo’s 32 wickets in 2013 is the joint-most number of wickets any bowler has taken in any single edition. Harshal Patel matched the tally in 2021.

The players with the most wickets during the tournament wear the Purple Cap while on the field. However, the bowler with the most wickets at the end of the tournament will win the Purple Cap award. In case of a tie, the bowler with the better economy rate ranks higher on the list.

Rajasthan Royals’ Sohail Tanvir took 22 wickets in 11 matches at the inaugural edition in 2008 and was the first player to win the Purple Cap in the IPL.

Interestingly, only three times the highest wicket-takers have come from the teams who eventually became champions - Rajasthan Royals’ Sohail Tanvir in 2008, Deccan Chargers’ RP Singh in 2009 and Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Bhuvneshwar Kumar in 2016.

The IPL 2024 began on March 22 and the final was played on May 26. Kolkata Knight Riders beat Sunrisers Hyderabad to win their third title at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.