IPL 2024 orange cap: Virat Kohli, purple cap: Yuzvendra Chahal
Which players currently hold the orange and purple caps in the 2024 IPL?
ESPNcricinfo staff
18-Apr-2024 • Updated 8 hrs ago
Yuzvendra Chahal of Rajasthan Royals (left) is the leading wicket-taker of IPL 2024, and the only spinner among the top ten wicket-takers • Associated Press
Who is the orange cap holder in the 2024 IPL?
Virat Kohli is the top run-scorer of IPL 2024 with 361 runs from seven games for Royal Challengers Bengaluru so far. Kohli cemented his No. 1 position with his 42 off 20 balls in Monday night's loss against Sunrisers Hyderabad, a game in which 549 runs were scored.
Riyan Parag of Rajasthan Royals is at No. 2 with 318 runs, having narrowed the gap to Kohli; he made 34 in his team's win against Kolkata Knight Riders on Tuesday night. Sunil Narine of KKR, who made 109 off 56 balls against RR, is in third place with 276 runs from six games. Sanju Samson, the Rajasthan Royals captain, also has 276 runs but at a lower strike rate. Shubman Gill, the Gujarat Titans captain, rounds out the top five, with 263 runs.
His Mumbai Indians counterpart, Rohit Sharma, is in sixth, on 261, and SRH's Heinrich Klaasen is eight runs behind him. Jos Buttler, whose hundred shaped Royals' win against KKR on Tuesday, is in eighth place with 250 runs.
Among the top ten run-makers, Klaasen has the best strike rate, 199.21, leading by a fraction over his team-mate Travis Head, whose runs have come at 199.15.
Buttler is the leading century-maker this year, with two hundreds. Rohit, Narine, Kohli and Head are the other batters to have scored a hundred this season. Three batters, Parag, Samson and Klaasen, have three fifties in IPL 2024.
Who is the purple cap holder in the 2024 IPL?
Yuzvendra Chahal, the Rajasthan Royals legspinner, is at No. 1 on the wicket-takers' list in this year's IPL with 12 wickets from seven games at an economy rate of 8.34.
Jasprit Bumrah is second, with ten wickets. Also on ten wickets are CSK seamer Mustafizur Rahman, who has played five games, and Delhi Capitals' Khaleel Ahmed.
Four other fast bowlers follow with nine wickets apiece: Pat Cummins, the Sunrisers captain; Punjab Kings' Kagiso Rabada and his team-mate, left-arm fast bowler Arshdeep Singh; and Gerald Coetzee of MI.
Another group of four fast bowlers has eight wickets each: Matheesha Pathirana of CSK, who was the Player of the Match for his 4 for 28 against Mumbai Indians on Sunday; DC's Mukesh Kumar, who took 3 for 14 in 2.3 overs to bowl out Titans for 89 on Wednesday night; Sam Curran of Punjab Kings; and Mohit Sharma of Titans. No fewer than ten bowlers are tied on seven wickets; Narine has the best economy rate among them - 6.87.
Bumrah has the best economy rate among the top 20 bowlers, 6.08. He and Yash Thakur of Lucknow Super Giants are the only bowlers to have taken five-fors this year. Chahal is the only spinner among the top ten most successful bowlers in the 2024 IPL.
Four bowlers, Pathirana, Mustafizur, Arshdeep and Coetzee, have taken four in an innings.