IPL 2024 orange cap: Ruturaj Gaikwad, purple cap: T Natarajan
Which players are the highest run-scorers and wicket-takers in the 2024 IPL?
ESPNcricinfo staff
03-May-2024 • Updated 13 hrs ago
T Natarajan is the top wicket-taker of IPL 2024, with 15 wickets • BCCI
Who is the orange cap holder in the 2024 IPL?
Ruturaj Gaikwad, Chennai Super Kings' captain, is the leading run-scorer of the 2024 IPL. His 62 off 48 balls in the defeat to Punjab Kings on Wednesday took him to 509 runs from ten matches. Virat Kohli, in second place, is the only other batter to have scored 500 so far this season.
At No. 3 is Gujarat Titans' Sai Sudharsan, with 418 runs, followed by Rajasthan Royals' Riyan Parag, whose 77 off 49 balls against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Thursday took him to 409 runs.
In fifth place is Lucknow Super Giants captain KL Rahul, who has 406. He is followed by Rishabh Pant, the Delhi Capitals captain, with 398 from 11 matches. Then comes Sunrisers' Travis Head, who scored a half-century in the narrow win over Royals on Thursday, to tally 396 from nine matches.
Phil Salt of Kolkata Knight Riders, Sanju Samson, the Rajasthan Royals captain, Sunil Narine, also of KKR, complete the top ten.
Among the top 20 run-makers, two Sunrisers batters lead the way in terms of strike rate - Abhishek Sharma with 208.60 and Head with 194.11. 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?
Sunrisers fast bowler T Natarajan, who took 2 for 35 in the one-run win over Royals on Thursday, has displaced Mumbai Indians' Jasprit Bumrah from the top spot on the wicket-takers' chart. Natarajan has 15 wickets from eight matches at an economy of 8.96 and a strike rate of 12.80.
Bumrah, in second place, has 14 wickets from ten games, the same as CSK's Mustafizur Rahman and Punjab Kings seamer Harshal Patel, but Bumrah's economy of 6.40 is lower than theirs.
In fifth place with 13 wickets from only six games is CSK fast bowler Matheesha Pathirana. Four other bowlers have taken 13 wickets each - Mukesh Kumar of DC, Gerald Coetzee of MI, Arshdeep Singh of PBKS, and Yuzvendra Chahal of Rajasthan Royals, who this season became the first bowler in the history of the IPL to take 200 wickets.
Four bowlers are on 12 wickets apiece: Kuldeep Yadav and Khaleel Ahmed of DC, Sam Curran of Punjab, and Pat Cummins of SRH.
Only three bowlers have taken five-fors so far this season - Bumrah, Yash Thakur of LSG, and Sandeep Sharma of Royals. Eight bowlers - Pathirana, Kuldeep, Natarajan, Mustafizur, Arshdeep, Coetzee, Tushar Deshpande and R Sai Kishore - have taken four in an innings.
Chahal, Kuldeep, Narine and Varun Chakravarthy of KKR are the only spinners among the top 20 most successful bowlers in the 2024 IPL. Narine has the second-best economy rate after Bumrah among the top 20 wicket-takers, 6.86, and Pathirana the third best, with 7.68.