IPL 2026 Purple Cap List: Most Wickets Taken This Season

As the Indian premier League witnessing the record breaking huge totals in most of the game there is small narrow room for the bowlers to compete against them on the pitches which favors the batsmen mostly. In this year’s edition there are couple of bowler who are bowling like a machine as they scalped the wickets and the dot balls in every match.

Players like Bhuvenshwar Kumar, Kagiso Rabada, Jofra Archer, Mohammed Siraj and Eshaan Malinga shown the excellent display of the bowling and one of thm could win the Purple cao of this year.

List Bowlers Who Taken Most Wickets In IPL 2026

Rank	Name	Team Featured	Wickets Taken	Matches
1	Bhuvnehswar Kumar	Royal Challengers Banglore	26	15
2	Kagiso Rabada	Gujarat Titans	26	15
3	Jofra Archer	Rajasthan Royals	24	15
4	Anshul Kamboj	Chennai Super Kings	21	14
5	Eshan Malinga	Sunrisers Hyderabad	20	15
6	Rashid Khan	Gujarat Titans	19	15
7	Kartik Tyagi	Kolkata Knight Riders	18	14
8	Mohammed Siraj	Gujarat Titans	17	15
9	Prince Yadav	Lucknow Super Giants	16	14
10	Rasikh Salam	Royal Challengers Banglore	16	11

IPL – List of Purple Cap winners

Year	Player Name	Team	Wickets Taken
2008	Sohail Tanvir	Rajasthan Royals	22 Wickets
2009	RP Singh	Deccan Chargers	23 wickets
2010	Pragyan Ojha	Deccan Chargers	21 wickets
2011	Lasith Malinga	Mumbai Indians	28 wickets
2012	Morne Morkel	Delhi Daredevils	25 wickets
2013	Dwayne Bravo	Chennai Super Kings	32 wickets
2014	Mohit Sharma	Chennai Super Kings	23 wickets
2015	Dwayne Bravo	Chennai Super Kings	26 wickets
2016	Bhuvneshwar Kumar	Sunrisers Hyderabad	23 wickets
2017	Bhuvneshwar Kumar	Sunrisers Hyderabad	23 wickets
2018	Andrew Tye	Kings XI Punjab	24 wickets
2019	Imran Tahir	Chennai Super Kings	26 wickets
2020	Kagiso Rabada	Delhi Capitals	30 wickets
2021	Harshal Patel	Royal Challengers Bangalore	32 wickets
2022	Yuzvendra Chahal	Rajasthan Royals	27 wickets
2023	Mohammed Shami	Gujarat Titans	28 wickets
2024	Harshal Patel	Punjab Kings	24 wickets
2025	Prasidh Krishna	Gujarat Titans	25 wickets