Full l of highest wicket-takers in Indian Premier League from 2008 to 2025 Season
Indian Premier League Purple Cap Winners L from 2008 to 2025 Season: Gujarat Titans ace pacer Prasidh Krishna ended a fine season with the ball to win the Purple Cap in the Indian Premier League 2025 after taking 25 wickets. His economy rate was 8.27 while the average lay under 20. His best bowling figures were 4/41.
Gujarat Titans finished third in the standings, earning a spot in the playoffs. They were beaten the Mumbai Indians in the Eliminator before Royal Challengers Bengaluru ended an 18-year wait to lift their maiden IPL after beating Punjab Kings 6 runs in Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium on Tuesday. After reaching IPL finals on three different occasions — 2009, 2011, and 2016 — this was the first time when RCB lifted the IPL title. For Punjab, it was their second loss in the final after Kolkata Knight Riders beat them in 2014.
Chennai Super Kings’ 10cr signing Noor Ahmad was second in the l with 24 scalps this year, while instrumental in RCB’s title-winning run, Josh Hazlewood is third alongside Mumbai Indians’ gun pacer Trent Boult. Both of them have picked up 22 wickets each.
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This is the second instance where a GT bowler has won the Purple Cap. Earlier, Mohammed Shami picked 28 wickets in 17 matches to win the Purple Cap in 2023. GT did the double in both the most run-getters l and the highest wicket-takers l. Apart from Krishna’s Purple Cap, GT opener Sai Sudharan scored 759 runs to win the Orange Cap.
Purple Cap winners in IPL: Highest wicket-takers
Season
Player
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
2025
Prasidh Krishna (GT)
15
25
Highest wicket-takers in IPL 2025
Rank
Player Name
Team
Mat
BBI
WKTs
1
Prasidh Krishna
GT
15
41/4
25
2
Noor Ahmad
CSK
14
18/4
24
3
Josh Hazlewood
RCB
12
33/4
22
4
Trent Boult
MI
16
26/4
22
5
Arshdeep Singh
PBKS
17
16/3
21
(Table updated after RCB vs PBKS IPL 2025 Final)
