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.