IPL 2024 orange cap: Virat Kohli, purple cap: Jasprit Bumrah
Which players are the highest run-scorers and wicket-takers in the 2024 IPL?
ESPNcricinfo staff
06-May-2024 • Updated 3 hrs ago
Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah lead the runs and wickets charts in IPL 2024 • BCCI
Who is the orange cap holder in the 2024 IPL?
Virat Kohli of Royal Challengers Bengaluru is back at No. 1 on the list of top run-scorers in the 2024 IPL. He made 42 in his team's win over Gujarat Titans on Saturday and now has 542 runs at a strike rate of 148.08 from 11 games.
Ruturaj Gaikwad, Chennai Super Kings' captain, is at No. 2, with 541 runs from 11 matches. Gaikwad and Kohli are the only two batters to have scored over 500 runs this season.
At No. 3 with 461 runs is Kolkata Knight Riders opener Sunil Narine, whose 81 off 39 balls gave his side a massive win over Lucknow Super Giants on Sunday. He's followed by KL Rahul, the LSG captain, who has 431 runs, and Phil Salt, the other KKR opener, who has 429.
In sixth place is Gujarat Titans' Sai Sudharsan, with 424 runs, followed by Riyan Parag of Rajasthan Royals with 409. At No. 8 is Rishabh Pant, the Delhi Capitals captain, with 398 from 11 matches.
Sunrisers Hyderabad's Travis Head (396) and Royals captain Sanju Samson (385) round out the top ten.
Among the top 20 run-makers, three Sunrisers batters lead the way on strike rate - Abhishek Sharma with 208.60, Head with 194.11, and Heinrich Klaasen on 189.32. Jake Fraser-McGurk, outside the top 20, has the extraordinary strike rate of 233.33; he has made 259 runs from six innings this season.
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. Jonny Bairstow, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma, Will Jacks, Narine, Gaikwad, Kohli and Head are the other batters to have scored hundreds this IPL. Gaikwad, Kohli, Parag, Salt and Samson have made four fifties each.
Who is the purple cap holder in the 2024 IPL?
Mumbai Indians fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah has gone back up to No. 1 on the list of top wicket-takers in the 2024 IPL following his 3 for 18 against KKR on Friday. He now has 17 wickets from 11 games at the economy rate of 6.25.
Punjab Kings seamer Harshal Patel, who took 3 for 24 against Chennai Super Kings on Sunday, also has 17 wickets from 11 games, but at a higher economy of 9.78.
In third place is KKR legspinner Varun Chakravarthy with 16 wickets - he took 3 for 30 to help bowl out LSG for 137 on Sunday.
SHR's T Natarajan and Punjab's Arshdeep Singh both have 15 wickets each, although Natarajan got his in only eight matches, with an economy of 8.96, while Arshdeep took 11 matches and an economy of 10.06.
Three bowlers have 14 wickets apiece: KKR's Narine and Harshit Rana, and Mustafizur Rahman of Chennai Super Kings'.
Six bowlers have taken 13 wickets each - Matheesha Pathirana of CSK, Andre Russell of KKR, Mukesh Kumar of DC, Gerald Coetzee of MI, Sam Curran of PBKS, and Yuzvendra Chahal of Royals, who this season became the first bowler in the history of the IPL to take 200 wickets.
Only three bowlers have taken five-fors so far this season - Bumrah, Yash Thakur of LSG, and Sandeep Sharma of Royals. Nine bowlers - Pathirana, Kuldeep, Natarajan, Mustafizur, Arshdeep, Coetzee, Tushar Deshpande, R Sai Kishore and Mitchell Starc - 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, 6.61, and Pathirana the third best, with 7.68.