Purple Cap Holder 2022: If you are also watching IPL season 15 and want to know about which bowler has taken the most wickets in IPL till now, then you can continue with this article and you can know which bowler holds Purple Cap this year & also purple cap holder List 2022, So let’s know IPL 2022 Purple cap holder list & stats.
Purple Cap Holder List 2022
In the IPL 2022 match so far, the following bowlers are at the forefront of this race for the purple cap 2022. And in this, Rajasthan Royals (RR) star bowler Yuzvendra Chahal is at number one with 17 wickets, so let’s know which 5 Bowlers have a purple cap on his head so far.
| Positions | Player Name | Team | MATCHES | BBI | Runs | Econ | WICKETS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yuzvendra Chahal | RR | 15 | 40/5 | 462 | 7.70 | 26 |
| 2 | Wanindu Hasaranga | RCB | 14 | 18/5 | 362 | 7.38 | 24 |
| 3 | Kagiso Rabada | PBKS | 13 | 33/4 | 406 | 8.45 | 23 |
| 4 | Umran Malik | SRH | 14 | 25/5 | 444 | 9.03 | 22 |
| 5 | Kuldeep Yadav | KKR | 14 | 14/4 | 419 | 8.43 | 21 |
What is a Purple cap?
Purple Cap is a type of IPL award, and this award is given to those IPL players who have taken the most wickets in IPL with their bowling. And this cap is given at the end of every season to the player who has taken the most wickets, and the Purple Cap is the dream award for any bowler in the IPL.
IPL Purple Cap Award Rule
The Purple Cap award in the IPL is usually given to the IPL bowlers who have taken the most wickets in that IPL season.
And apart from this, if two bowlers take the same number of wickets in a season, then on the basis of the economy rate of that bowler, he is given a purple cap. The one who has a good economy rate is given a purple cap.
Therefore, along with taking wickets, the bowler has to perform excellent bowling, only then he can become the Purple Cap winner in the IPL.
Some facts related to IPL Purple Cap
- The first IPL purple cap was received by Pakistani bowler Sohail Tanvir, and he took 22 wickets in the first season of IPL. In this way, he is the first player in IPL history to get the Purple Cap.
- So far, there are only two bowlers in IPL history who have won the Purple Cap twice, and the first name comes from Chennai Super King’s star bowler Dwayne Bravo, while the second name comes from Sunrisers Hyderabad’s swing bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
- There are only two players to get the Purple Cap with the most wickets in IPL history, in which the first name is again Dwayne Bravo, who took 32 wickets in the 2013 IPL season and won the Purple Cap. While the second name is of Indian player Harshal Patel, who also won the Purple Cap by taking 32 wickets in IPL season 2021.
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar is the first bowler in IPL history to have won the Purple Cap in two consecutive IPL seasons (2016 and 2017).
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