IPL 2024 orange cap: Virat Kohli, purple cap: Harshal Patel
Which players are the highest run-scorers and wicket-takers in the 2024 IPL?
ESPNcricinfo staffUpdated on 27-May-2024Who is the orange cap holder in the 2024 IPL?Virat Kohli is the highest run-scorer in the 2024 IPL. He finished the season on 741 runs after scoring 33 in Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s defeat in the Eliminator against Rajasthan Royals. In second place is Ruturaj Gaikwad, Chennai Super Kings’ captain, who finished his season with 583 runs. At No. 3 is Riyan Parag of Royals, who added only six runs to his tally in his team’s loss in the second Qualifier, against Sunrisers Hyderabad. Travis Head of SRH, who was out for a first-ball duck in the IPL final against Kolkata Knight Riders, is next, with 567 runs.
Abhishek Sharma of SRH leads the way on strike rate among the top 20 run-makers, with 204.21 from 16 games, and has hit the most sixes, 42. Head has the second-best strike rate among the top 20, 191.55, and KKR’s Phil Salt is third with 182. Jake Fraser-McGurk, ranked 29th among the run-scorers, has a strike rate of 234.04 from nine games.Jos Buttler is the leading century-maker in this year’s IPL, with two hundreds. Marcus Stoinis’ 124 not out against CSK is the highest individual score of the season. Three batters among the top four run-scorers have made a hundred apiece, and so have Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan of Gujarat Titans, Suryakumar Yadav and Rohit Sharma of Mumbai Indians, Sunil Narine, Will Jacks of RCB, Yashasvi Jaiswal of Royals, and Jonny Bairstow of Punjab Kings. Kohli, Samson and RCB’s Rajat Patidar lead in terms of half-centuries, with five each; Heinrich Klaasen, Faf du Plessis, Venkatesh Iyer, KL Rahul, Gaikwad, Head, Parag, Salt and Fraser-McGurk have made four fifties each.Here’s the full list of the highest run-scorers in the 2024 IPL.Who is the purple cap holder in the 2024 IPL?Punjab Kings seamer Harshal Patel finished the 2023 IPL on top of the highest wicket-takers’ list, with 24 wickets at an economy of 9.73.In second place is KKR legspinner Varun Chakravarthy, who took 1 for 9 from his two overs in the final, to finish the season with 21 wickets at an economy of 8.04. MI’s Jasprit Bumrah is third with 20 wickets at a stunning economy of 6.48, followed by KKR’s Andre Russell, whose 3 for 19 in the final propelled him into the top ten. He leads a batch of five bowlers on 19 apiece, including his team-mate Harshit Rana, who took 2 for 24 in the final, SRH’s T Natarajan, Arshdeep Singh of PBKS, and Avesh Khan of Royals.Yuzvendra Chahal, who held the purple cap for a significant period earlier in the season before falling out of the top ten finishes on 18 wickets, at No. 9.
Three bowlers have taken five-fors so far this season – Bumrah, Yash Thakur of LSG, and Sandeep Sharma of Royals. Ten bowlers – Kuldeep Yadav, Natarajan, Mustafizur Rahman, Arshdeep, Deshpande, Matheesha Pathirana, Gerald Coetzee, R Sai Kishore, Mitchell Starc and Josh Little – have taken four in an innings.Only four spinners feature in the top 20: Chahal, Kuldeep of DC, Narine, and Chakravarthy.Narine has the second-best economy rate after Bumrah among the top 20 wicket-takers, 6.90, and Chakravarthy the third best, 8.04.Here’s the full list of the highest wicket-takers in the 2024 IPL.