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IPL 2026 Purple Cap

Updated 31 May 2026, after Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Gujarat Titans

Kagiso Rabada leads IPL 2026 with 29 wickets (Gujarat Titans) · Bhuvneshwar Kumar (28) and Jofra Archer (25) next

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#	Player · last 3 inningsPlayer	Team	Last 3 innings · newest first	Wickets	Mat	Inns	Mat	Inns	Ov	Runs	Avg	Econ	4w	5w
1	Kagiso Rabada GT 1/442/352/54	GT	1/442/352/54	29	17	17	17	17	64.4	626	21.59	9.72	0	0
2	Bhuvneshwar Kumar RCB 2/292/280/51	RCB	2/292/280/51	28	16	16	16	16	63.0	501	17.89	7.95	1	0
3	Jofra Archer RR 1/453/583/17	RR	1/453/583/17	25	16	16	16	16	60.0	559	22.36	9.32	0	0
4	Rashid Khan GT 2/250/450/29	GT	2/250/450/29	21	17	17	17	17	56.5	516	24.57	9.13	1	0
5	Anshul Kamboj CSK 1/561/460/63	CSK	1/561/460/63	21	14	14	14	14	49.8	530	25.24	10.64	0	0
6	Eshan Malinga SRH 1/402/331/26	SRH	1/402/331/26	20	15	15	15	15	54.2	507	25.35	9.35	1	0
7	Mohammed Siraj GT 1/361/420/46	GT	1/361/420/46	19	17	17	17	17	62.0	562	29.58	9.06	0	0
8	Rasikh Salam Dar RCB 3/272/242/52	RCB	3/272/242/52	19	12	12	12	12	42.5	405	21.32	9.53	1	0
9	Kartik Tyagi KKR 0/552/370/59	KKR	0/552/370/59	18	13	13	13	13	51.0	498	27.67	9.76	0	0
10	Jason Holder GT 0/162/272/39	GT	0/162/272/39	17	11	11	11	11	37.8	290	17.06	7.67	1	0
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11	Prince Yadav	LSG		16	14	14	14	14	52.0	459	28.69	8.83	0	0
12	Prasidh Krishna	GT		16	12	12	12	12	39.0	407	25.44	10.44	1	0
13	Josh Hazlewood	RCB		15	13	13	13	13	51.3	494	32.93	9.63	1	0
14	Sunil Narine	KKR		15	13	13	13	13	51.0	339	22.60	6.65	0	0
15	AM Ghazanfar	MI		15	11	11	11	11	38.5	388	25.87	10.08	0	0
16	Sakib Hussain	SRH		15	11	11	11	11	42.0	397	26.47	9.45	1	0
17	Krunal Pandya	RCB		14	16	15	16	15	50.3	425	30.36	8.45	0	0
18	Arshdeep Singh	PBKS		14	14	14	14	14	53.0	541	38.64	10.21	0	0
19	Nandre Burger	RR		14	13	13	13	13	43.3	440	31.43	10.16	0	0
20	Brijesh Sharma	RR		14	13	13	13	13	44.9	450	32.14	10.02	0	0
21	Jamie Overton	CSK		14	10	10	10	10	28.0	249	17.79	8.89	1	0
22	Praful Hinge	SRH		14	7	7	7	7	26.0	305	21.79	11.73	1	0
23	Noor Ahmad	CSK		13	14	14	14	14	51.0	428	32.92	8.39	0	0
24	Lungi Ngidi	DC		13	11	11	11	11	40.8	340	26.15	8.33	0	0
25	Mohammed Shami	LSG		12	13	13	13	13	51.0	459	38.25	9.00	0	0
26	Yuzvendra Chahal	PBKS		12	13	12	13	12	41.0	385	32.08	9.39	0	0
27	Shardul Thakur	MI		12	8	7	8	7	22.0	270	22.50	12.27	1	0
28	Corbin Bosch	MI		12	6	6	6	6	20.1	195	16.25	9.70	1	0
29	Axar Patel	DC		11	14	12	14	12	43.0	355	32.27	8.26	0	0
30	Varun Chakaravarthy	KKR		11	11	11	11	11	41.0	360	32.73	8.78	0	0
31	Vaibhav Arora	KKR		11	10	10	10	10	38.0	390	35.45	10.26	0	0
32	Ravi Bishnoi	RR		11	9	9	9	9	26.0	257	23.36	9.88	1	0
33	Mohsin Khan	LSG		11	7	7	7	7	28.0	228	20.73	8.14	0	1
34	Mitchell Starc	DC		11	6	6	6	6	22.0	224	20.36	10.18	1	0
35	Ravindra Jadeja	RR		10	13	12	13	12	33.0	277	27.70	8.39	0	0
36	Kuldeep Yadav	DC		10	12	11	12	11	37.0	381	38.10	10.30	0	0
37	Anukul Roy	KKR		9	13	12	13	12	27.1	261	29.00	9.63	0	0
38	Shivang Kumar	SRH		9	13	13	13	13	39.0	375	41.67	9.62	0	0
39	Marco Jansen	PBKS		9	12	12	12	12	47.2	483	53.67	10.23	0	0
40	Suyash Sharma	RCB		9	12	12	12	12	40.5	376	41.78	9.28	0	0
41	Vijaykumar Vyshak	PBKS		9	9	9	9	9	31.0	330	36.67	10.65	0	0
42	Yash Raj Punja	RR		9	8	8	8	8	30.0	279	31.00	9.30	0	0
43	Jacob Duffy	RCB		9	6	6	6	6	24.0	263	29.22	10.96	0	0
44	Nitish Kumar Reddy	SRH		8	14	14	14	14	31.0	323	40.38	10.42	0	0
45	Pat Cummins	SRH		8	8	8	8	8	32.0	306	38.25	9.56	0	0
46	Deepak Chahar	MI		8	8	8	8	8	25.3	265	33.13	10.47	0	0
47	Mukesh Choudhary	CSK		8	8	8	8	8	28.0	249	31.13	8.89	0	0
48	Harsh Dubey	SRH		8	8	8	8	8	22.0	228	28.50	10.36	0	0
49	Akeal Hosein	CSK		8	7	7	7	7	24.4	198	24.75	8.11	1	0
50	Romario Shepherd	RCB		7	15	13	15	13	24.6	298	42.57	12.11	0	0
51	Cameron Green	KKR		7	14	10	14	10	22.0	234	33.43	10.64	0	0
52	Mukesh Kumar	DC		6	10	10	10	10	31.2	353	58.83	11.31	0	0
53	Avesh Khan	LSG		6	7	7	7	7	24.4	274	45.67	11.23	0	0
54	Arshad Khan	GT		6	7	6	7	6	17.2	172	28.67	10.00	0	0
55	Ashok Sharma	GT		6	6	6	6	6	21.0	228	38.00	10.86	0	0
56	Manimaran Siddharth	LSG		6	4	4	4	4	15.0	145	24.17	9.67	0	0
57	Ashwani Kumar	MI		6	3	3	3	3	10.0	102	17.00	10.20	1	0
58	Thangarasu Natarajan	DC		5	10	10	10	10	31.1	356	71.20	11.45	0	0
59	Digvesh Rathi	LSG		5	10	10	10	10	39.0	397	79.40	10.18	0	0
60	Xavier Bartlett	PBKS		5	9	9	9	9	32.9	388	77.60	11.79	0	0
61	Sandeep Sharma	RR		5	6	6	6	6	19.4	224	44.80	11.55	0	0
62	Shahbaz Ahmed	LSG		5	5	5	5	5	11.1	130	26.00	11.71	0	0
63	Mitchell Santner	MI		5	4	4	4	4	14.0	125	25.00	8.93	0	0
64	Saurabh Dubey	KKR		5	4	4	4	4	12.5	106	21.20	8.48	0	0
65	Jasprit Bumrah	MI		4	13	13	13	13	49.0	409	102.25	8.35	0	0
66	Shashank Singh	PBKS		4	11	4	11	4	10.0	88	22.00	8.80	0	0
67	Hardik Pandya	MI		4	10	9	10	9	22.4	259	64.75	11.56	0	0
68	Gurjapneet Singh	CSK		4	8	8	8	8	25.1	233	58.25	9.28	0	0
69	Tushar Deshpande	RR		4	7	7	7	7	23.0	275	68.75	11.96	0	0
70	Jaydev Unadkat	SRH		4	4	4	4	4	12.5	140	35.00	11.20	0	0
71	Madhav Tiwari	DC		4	3	3	3	3	10.0	87	21.75	8.70	0	0
72	Blessing Muzarabani	KKR		4	2	2	2	2	7.0	75	18.75	10.71	1	0
73	Akash Maharaj Singh	LSG		4	2	2	2	2	7.0	80	20.00	11.43	0	0
74	Azmatullah Omarzai	PBKS		3	3	3	3	3	11.0	103	34.33	9.36	0	0
75	Abhinandan Singh	RCB		3	3	3	3	3	9.4	122	40.67	12.98	0	0
76	Riyan Parag	RR		2	14	4	14	4	4.0	38	19.00	9.50	0	0
77	Marcus Stoinis	PBKS		2	11	4	11	4	7.5	98	49.00	13.07	0	0
78	Will Jacks	MI		2	7	6	7	6	8.5	94	47.00	11.06	0	0
79	Trent Boult	MI		2	5	5	5	5	16.1	188	94.00	11.68	0	0
80	Khaleel Ahmed	CSK		2	5	5	5	5	16.5	146	73.00	8.85	0	0
81	Vipraj Nigam	DC		2	5	5	5	5	9.0	113	56.50	12.56	0	0
82	Matt Henry	CSK		2	3	3	3	3	10.0	130	65.00	13.00	0	0
83	Spencer Johnson	CSK		2	3	3	3	3	11.0	112	56.00	10.18	0	0
84	Manav Suthar	GT		2	3	3	3	3	6.0	68	34.00	11.33	0	0
85	Raj Angad Bawa	MI		2	3	2	3	2	4.0	50	25.00	12.50	0	0
86	David Payne	SRH		2	2	2	2	2	5.0	70	35.00	14.00	0	0
87	Kyle Jamieson	DC		2	2	2	2	2	7.0	90	45.00	12.86	0	0
88	Harpreet Brar	PBKS		2	2	2	2	2	8.0	60	30.00	7.50	0	0
89	Sushant Mishra	RR		2	2	2	2	2	6.2	67	33.50	10.81	0	0
90	Yash Thakur	PBKS		2	1	1	1	1	4.0	55	27.50	13.75	0	0
91	Washington Sundar	GT		1	16	5	16	5	9.1	84	84.00	9.23	0	0
92	Travis Head	SRH		1	15	1	15	1	1.0	7	7.00	7.00	0	0
93	Donovan Ferreira	RR		1	14	3	14	3	3.0	41	41.00	13.67	0	0
94	Shivam Dube	CSK		1	12	4	12	4	5.0	64	64.00	12.80	0	0
95	Ramandeep Singh	KKR		1	8	2	8	2	2.4	31	31.00	12.92	0	0
96	Dasun Shanaka	RR		1	6	3	6	3	6.0	60	60.00	10.00	0	0
97	Raghu Sharma	MI		1	5	5	5	5	15.0	130	130.00	8.67	0	0
98	Lockie Ferguson	PBKS		1	3	3	3	3	11.0	141	141.00	12.82	0	0
99	George Linde	LSG		1	3	3	3	3	6.1	55	55.00	9.02	0	0
100	Sai Kishore	GT		1	2	2	2	2	4.0	46	46.00	11.50	0	0

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IPL 2026 Purple Cap

Kagiso Rabada topped IPL 2026 with 29 wickets for Gujarat Titans, ahead of Bhuvneshwar Kumar (28) and Jofra Archer (25). The IPL 2026 Purple Cap leaderboard tracks the top wickets across all matches this season. These are the final standings from the IPL 2026 season.

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Who won the IPL 2026 Purple Cap?

Kagiso Rabada led IPL 2026 with 29 wickets from 17 matches, at an economy of 9.72 and an average of 21.59. Bhuvneshwar Kumar was second on 28 and Jofra Archer third on 25. The table ranks every player in IPL 2026 by wickets, with their team and matches.

Who were the top wicket takers in IPL 2026?

The top three wicket takers in IPL 2026 were Kagiso Rabada (29 in 17 matches), Bhuvneshwar Kumar (28 in 16 matches) and Jofra Archer (25 in 16 matches). Kagiso Rabada was 1 wicket clear of Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Every other player follows in the table, with their team and matches.

What is the Purple Cap in cricket?

The Purple Cap is awarded to the leading wicket taker in an IPL season. The bowler who finishes with the most wickets at the end of the tournament takes home the Purple Cap.

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