Purple Cap/Most Wickets
The player who finishes an IPL season with most number of wickets is given the Purple Cap. The Purple Cap was introduced and awarded in 2008. Sohail Tanvir, the former Pakistan pacer, was the very first winner of the Purple Cap after he took 22 wickets from 11 matches while playing for Rajasthan Royals (RR). He is the only Pakistani to have won the Purple Cap, as Pakistan players have since been banned from playing in the IPL due to political tensions.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Dwayne Bravo remain the only bowlers to have won the Purple Cap more than once — both of them have two Purple Caps to their name.
RP Singh was the first Indian to win the Purple Cap after he took 23 wickets for the now defunct Deccan Chargers in 2009. Another Deccan Chargers bowler, Pragyan Ojha won the Purple Cap in 2010, after taking 21 wickets.
Former Mumbai Indians (MI) speedster Lasith Malinga would then set a new record for taking the most number of wickets in a season after he took 28 scalps to finish as the Purple Cap winner in 2011. Morne Morkel of Delhi Daredevils (now Capitals) was the winner of the Purple Cap in 2012 after he took 25 wickets.
In 2013, Dwayne Bravo created history after he ended up as the top wicket taker that season with 32 wickets. Bravo was the first bowler in IPL history to cross the 30-wicket mark in a season.
Mohit Sharma (23 wickets) was the winner of the 2014 edition, before Bravo (26) won it again in 2015. Bhuvneshwar Kumar then won it in consecutive seasons in 2016 and 2017, before Andrew Tyle became the first Aussie to win it after taking 24 wickets in 2018.
Since then, Imran Tahir (2019), Kagiso Rabada (2020), Harshal Patel (2021), Yuzvendra Chahal (2022) and Mohammed Shami (2023) have won the Purple Cap, with Rabada and Harshal also joining Bravo with 30 or more wickets in a season.