IPL Legends Without a Purple Cap: Bumrah, Narine, Ashwin, Jadeja, Rashid Khan
MMoneycontrol•21-03-2026, 09:20
IPL Legends Without a Purple Cap: Bumrah, Narine, Ashwin, Jadeja, Rashid Khan
- •Sohail Tanvir was the first Purple Cap winner in 2008; Dwayne Bravo, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, and Harshal Patel have won it twice.
- •Sunil Narine, despite 20+ wickets in his first three KKR seasons, was narrowly pipped for the Purple Cap twice.
- •R Ashwin ended his IPL career with 187 wickets but only took 20 wickets in a single campaign once (2011).
- •Jasprit Bumrah took 27 wickets in 2020, but Kagiso Rabada won the Purple Cap with 30 victims.
- •Ravindra Jadeja, an integral part of the league, has only taken more than 15 wickets in a season twice, including 20 in 2023.