List of IPL's Purple Cap winners

The Indian Premier League (IPL) is set to enter its eighteenth season in 2025, First introduced in 2008, this Twenty20 format of cricket league has quickly connected with the Indian cricket fans and has emerged to become the most popular sports competition in the country. The Indian Premier League (IPL) includes ten teams from ten different cities of India since 2008. Some of these teams have become more popular than the others over the years due to their ability to become IPL champions multiple times. Moreover, some of these teams have also rebranded and changed their names over the years. These teams gets their players through bidding at the IPL auctions.

The Indian Premier League (IPL) have also included a Purple Cap Award, similar to their Orange Cap Award for their players. The Purple Cap, better known as Aramco Purple Cap is reserved for the bowlers rather than the batters. More specifically, this cap is granted to those bowlers who become the leading wicket takers throughout the season while the leading wicket-taker gets the Purple Cap Award after the completion of the season. Notably, Sohail Tanvir of the Rajasthan Royals became the inauagural Purple Cap winner which also contributed to his team becoming the inaugural IPL Champions in 2008.

List of all IPL Purple Cap winners

The Purple Cap feature was introduced in the Indian Premier League (IPL) on April 25, 2008, following the introduction of the Orange Cup. Notably, the players with the most purple cap winnings in their IPL career are Harshal Patel, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar and Dwayne Bravo, all of whom have won the Purple Cup twice, as of March 2025. According to Olympics' official website, the following table is an account of all the best wicket takers in the Indian Premier League (IPL):

Season	Player Name	Team	Matches	Wickets
2008	Sohail Tanvir	RR	11	22
2009	RP Singh	DC	16	23
2010	Pragyan Ojha	DC	16	21
2011	Lasith Malinga	MI	16	28
2012	Morne Morkel	DD	16	25
2013	Dwayne Bravo	CSK	18	32
2014	Mohit Sharma	CSK	16	23
2015	Dwayne Bravo	CSK	16	26
2016	Bhuvneshwar Kumar	SRH	17	23
2017	Bhuvneshwar Kumar	SRH	14	26
2018	Andrew Tye	KXIP	14	24
2019	Imran Tahir	CSK	17	26
2020	Kagiso Rabada	DC	17	30
2021	Harshal Patel	RCB	15	32
2022	Yuzvendra Chahal	RR	17	27
2023	Mohammed Shami	GT	17	28
2024	Harshal Patel	PBKS	14	24

Read More:- IPL Orange Cap Winners List