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 staff
Updated on 15-May-2024
Harshal Patel has taken the purple cap back from Jasprit Bumrah and now leads with 22 wickets from the 2024 IPL season • BCCI
Who is the orange cap holder in the 2024 IPL?
Virat Kohli continues to be the highest scorer in the 2024 IPL, with 661 runs at a strike rate of 155.16 from 13 matches.
Ruturaj Gaikwad, Chennai Super Kings' captain, is at No. 2, with 583 runs. In third place is Travis Head with 533 runs from 11 matches at a strike rate of 201.89.
Riyan Parag of Rajasthan Royals follows in fourth place; he made 48 in Rajasthan Royals' to Punjab Kings on Wednesday.
Sai Sudharsan of Gujarat Titans is fifth, four runs behind Parag. Sanju Samson, the Royals captain, is on 504. The top six batters this season all have over 500 runs.
Abhishek Sharma of Sunrisers Hyderabad, just outside the top ten with 401 runs, leads the way on strike rate among the top 20 run-makers, with 205.64 from 12 games, and has hit the most sixes, 35. Head has the second-best strike rate, 201.89, and Sunil Narine of KKR follows with 182.93. Jake Fraser-McGurk, ranked 25th 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. The top three run-scorers have made a hundred apiece, and so have Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill of Gujarat Titans, Suryakumar Yadav and Rohit Sharma of Mumbai Indians, Narine, Will Jacks of RCB, Yashasvi Jaiswal of Rajasthan Royals, and Jonny Bairstow of Punjab Kings. Kohli, Samson and RCB's Rajat Patidar lead in terms of half-centuries, with five each; Gaikwad, Head, Parag, Salt and Fraser-McGurk have made four fifties each.
Who is the purple cap holder in the 2024 IPL?
Punjab Kings seamer Harshal Patel has gone back to the top of the highest wicket-takers' list in the 2024 IPL, with 22 wickets at an economy of 9.51. He took 2 for 28 in the match against Royals on Wednesday.
Jasprit Bumrah of Mumbai Indians is second, with 20 wickets at the stellar economy of 6.48. In third place is KKR legspinner Varun Chakravarthy with 18 wickets from 12 games. He's followed by four bowlers on 17 apiece: Delhi Capitals seamers Mukesh Kumar and Khaleel Ahmed, PBKS fast bowler Arshdeep Singh, and Royals legspinner Yuzvendra Chahal.
KKR fast bowler Harshit Rana comes next, in eighth place, leading a pack of four bowlers who are on 16 wickets each.
Three bowlers have taken five-fors so far this season - Bumrah, Yash Thakur of LSG, and Sandeep Sharma of Royals. Ten bowlers - Kuldeep Yadav, T Natarajan, Mustafizur Rahman, Arshdeep, Deshpande, Matheesha Pathirana, Gerald Coetzee, R Sai Kishore, Mitchell Starc and Josh Little - have taken four in an innings.
Chahal, Kuldeep, Narine and Chakravarthy are the only spinners among the top 20.
Narine has the second-best economy rate after Bumrah among the top 20 wicket-takers, 6.63, and Pathirana the third best, 7.68.