IPL: Complete Purple Cap Winners List
April 1, 2023 By 100MB Team
The 16th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) commenced on Friday, March 31, 2023, as defending champions Gujarat Titans squared off against Chennai Super Kings at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
The Purple Cap is awarded to the top wicket-taker in the IPL during a season. It is an ongoing competition with the leader wearing the cap throughout the tournament until the final game, with the eventual winner keeping the cap for the season.
IPL Purple Cap Trivia
- Sohail Tanvir was the first bowler to be awarded the Purple Cap for taking 22 wickets in 11 matches in the 2008 season.
- The record for most wickets in a single edition is held jointly by Dwayne Bravo (32 wickets in the 2015 season) and Harshal Patel (32 scalps in 2021 edition)
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar is the only bowler to have won the Purple Cap in successive editions of the IPL (2016, 2017)
Rules for IPL Purple Cap
- The Purple Cap is awarded to the leading wicket-taker of the IPL season.
- The bowler with the most wickets in the tournament during the season is allowed to wear the Cap in the field.
- In an event of a tie, the Purple Cap is awarded to the bowler with a better economy rate.
Purple Cap winners in all IPL seasons:
| Player | Wickets | Year |
| Sohail Tanvir | 22 | 2008 |
| RP Singh | 23 | 2009 |
| Pragyan Ojha | 21 | 2010 |
| Lasith Malinga | 28 | 2011 |
| Morne Morkel | 25 | 2012 |
| Dwayne Bravo | 32 | 2013 |
| Mohit Sharma | 23 | 2014 |
| Dwayne Bravo | 26 | 2015 |
| Bhuvneshwar Kumar | 23 | 2016 |
| Bhuvneshwar Kumar | 26 | 2017 |
| Andrew Tye | 24 | 2018 |
| Imran Tahir | 26 | 2019 |
| Kagiso Rabada | 30 | 2020 |
| Harshal Patel | 32 | 2021 |
| Yuzvendra Chahal | 27 | 2022 |
