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IPL 2024 orange cap: Virat Kohli, purple cap: Harshal Patel

Which players are the highest run-scorers and wicket-takers in the 2024 IPL?

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18-May-2024 • Updated 12 hrs ago
Virat Kohli brought up his half-century off 32 balls, Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru, IPL 2024, Dharamsala, May 9, 2024

Virat Kohli, the orange cap holder of the 2024 IPL, has five half-centuries and one hundred this season  •  BCCI

Who is the orange cap holder in the 2024 IPL?

Virat Kohli continues to be the highest scorer in the 2024 IPL, with 661 runs at a strike rate of 155.16 from 13 matches.
Ruturaj Gaikwad, Chennai Super Kings' captain, is at No. 2, with 583 runs. In third place is Travis Head with 533 runs from 11 matches at a strike rate of 201.89.
Riyan Parag of Rajasthan Royals follows two runs behind in fourth place; he made 48 in Royals' defeat to Punjab Kings on Wednesday.
Sai Sudharsan of Gujarat Titans is fifth, four runs behind Parag. LSG captain KL Rahul, who made 58 in his side's win over Mumbai Indians on Friday night, follows with 520 runs from 14 games. Sanju Samson, the Royals captain, is next, on 504. The top seven batters this season all have over 500 runs.
Abhishek Sharma of Sunrisers Hyderabad, at No. 15 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 has the second-best strike rate, 201.89, and Sunil Narine of KKR follows with 182.93. 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 three run-scorers have made a hundred apiece, and so have Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill of Gujarat Titans, Suryakumar Yadav and Rohit Sharma of Mumbai Indians, Narine, Will Jacks of RCB, Yashasvi Jaiswal of 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, Rahul, Salt and Fraser-McGurk have made four fifties each.

Who is the orange cap holder in the 2024 IPL?

Virat Kohli who went past 700 runs in the 2024 IPL in the match against Chennai Super Kings sits unchallenged as the highest run-scorer in the tournament.
Ruturaj Gaikwad, the CSK captain, is at No. 2, with 583 runs. In third place is Travis Head with 533 runs from 11 matches at a strike rate of 201.89.
Riyan Parag of Rajasthan Royals follows in fourth place; he made 48 in Rajasthan Royals' loss to Punjab Kings on Wednesday.
Sai Sudharsan of Gujarat Titans is fifth, four runs behind Parag. Sanju Samson, the Royals captain, is on 504. The top six batters this season all have over 500 runs.
Abhishek Sharma of Sunrisers Hyderabad, who is at No. 16 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 has the second-best strike rate, 201.89, and Sunil Narine of KKR follows with 182.93. Jake Fraser-McGurk, ranked 26th 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 three run-scorers have made one hundred apiece, and so have Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill of Gujarat Titans, Suryakumar Yadav and Rohit Sharma of Mumbai Indians, Narine, 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, KL Rahul, Phil Salt, Faf du Plessis, and Fraser-McGurk have made four fifties each.

Who is the purple cap holder in the 2024 IPL?

Punjab Kings seamer Harshal Patel is on top of the highest wicket-takers' list in the 2024 IPL, with 22 wickets at an economy of 9.51. He took 2 for 28 in the match against Royals on Wednesday.
Jasprit Bumrah of Mumbai Indians is second, with 20 wickets at the stellar economy of 6.48. In third place is KKR legspinner Varun Chakravarthy with 18 wickets from 12 games. He's followed by five bowlers on 17 apiece: Delhi Capitals seamers Mukesh Kumar and Khaleel Ahmed, Tushar Deshpande of CSK, PBKS fast bowler Arshdeep Singh, and Royals legspinner Yuzvendra Chahal.
KKR fast bowler Harshit Rana comes next, in eighth place, leading a pack of three bowlers who are on 16 wickets each.
Three bowlers have taken five-fors so far this season - Bumrah, Yash Thakur of LSG, and Sandeep Sharma of Royals. Ten bowlers - Kuldeep Yadav, T Natarajan, Mustafizur Rahman, Arshdeep, Deshpande, Matheesha Pathirana, Gerald Coetzee, R Sai Kishore, Mitchell Starc and Josh Little - have taken four in an innings.
Chahal, Kuldeep, Narine, Chakravarthy, and Piyush Chawla of MI, are the five 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.