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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
15-May-2024 • Updated 9 hrs ago
Jasprit Bumrah sent Virat Kohli back for 3, Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, IPL 2024, Mumbai, April 11, 2024

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 continues his reign at the top of the 2024 IPL run-scoring chart with 661 runs at a strike rate of 155.16 from 13 matches. He made 27 off 13 balls in Royal Challengers Bengaluru's big win over Delhi Capitals on Sunday.
Ruturaj Gaikwad, Chennai Super Kings' captain, is at No. 2, with 583 runs from 13 games following his unbeaten 42 in CSK's five-wicket win over Rajasthan Royals. In third place is Travis Head with 533 runs from 11 matches at a strike rate of 201.89.
Sai Sudharsan of Gujarat Titans is in fourth place, six runs behind Head. He is followed by two Royals batters - captain Sanju Samson on 486 and Riyan Parag on 483.
Lucknow Super Giants captain KL Rahul comes next with 465 runs. In eighth place is Kolkata Knight Riders opener Sunil Narine (461), followed by DC captain Rishabh Pant (446), who made 33 off 23 balls in the win over LSG on Tuesday, and Phil Salt of KKR (435).
Abhishek Sharma, 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 and Narine (182.93) are placed next in the strike-rates list among the top 20. 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 four run-scorers have made a hundred apiece, and so have Narine, Gill, Suryakumar Yadav and Rohit Sharma of Mumbai Indians, 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?

Mumbai Indians fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah continues on top of the list of leading wicket-takers in the 2024 IPL with 20 wickets, the same as Punjab seamer Harshal Patel, but at an economy of 6.48 to Harshal's 9.75.
In third place is KKR legspinner Varun Chakravarthy with 18 wickets from 12 games. He's followed by two DC seamers on 17 wickets a piece - Mukesh Kumar and Khaleel Ahmed, who took a wicket each in Tuesday's game. KKR fast bowler Harshit Rana is in sixth place with 16 from ten matches. Three other bowlers have 16 wickets each: DC's Kuldeep Yadav, CSK's Tushar Deshpande and Arshdeep Singh of PBKS.
KKR's Andre Russell and Narine, T Natarajan of Sunrisersm and Yuzvendra Chahal of Royals have 15 wickets each.
Three bowlers have 14 wickets apiece: CSK's Mustafizur Rahman, Punjab's Sam Curran and Pat Cummins of SRH.
Three bowlers have taken five-fors so far this season - Bumrah, Yash Thakur of LSG, and Sandeep Sharma of Royals. Ten bowlers - Kuldeep, Natarajan, Mustafizur, 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.