South African fast bowler Kagiso Rabada won the Purple Cap in IPL 2026. Rabada played all 17 matches in the 2026 edition of the Indian Premier League for Gujarat Titans and picked up 29 wickets. He accounted for the dismissal of one Royal Challengers Bengaluru batter in the IPL 2026 final on Sunday to take his tally to 29 wickets.
IPL 2026 | Schedule | Results | Orange Cap | Purple Cap
He finished the season with one more wicket than RCB pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Bhuvneshwar played 16 matches for the Rajat Patidar-led side and got rid of 28 batters.
In the list of bowlers with the most wickets in IPL 2026, Rabada and Bhuvneshwar were followed by Jofra Archer. The English pacer played 16 matches for Rajasthan Royals and picked up 25 wickets.
Most
wickets in IPL 2026
| POSITION | PLAYER | TEAM | MATCHES | WICKETS | BEST FIGURES | ECONOMY RATE |
| 1. | Kagiso Rabada | Gujarat Titans | 17 | 29 | 3/25 | 9.68 |
| 2. | Bhuvneshwar Kumar | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 16 | 28 | 4/23 | 7.95 |
| 3. | Jofra Archer | Rajasthan Royals | 16 | 25 | 3/17 | 9.31 |
| 4. | Rashid Khan | Gujarat Titans | 17 | 21 | 4/33 | 9.07 |
| 5. | Anshul Kamboj | Chennai Super Kings | 14 | 21 | 3/22 | 10.52 |
| 6. | Eshan Malinga | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 15 | 20 | 4/32 | 9.33 |
| 7. | Mohammed Siraj | Gujarat Titans | 17 | 19 | 3/26 | 9.06 |
| 8. | Rasikh Salam Dar | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 12 | 19 | 4/24 | 9.45 |
| 9. | Kartik Tyagi | Kolkata Knight Riders | 14 | 18 | 3/22 | 9.76 |
| 10. | Jason Holder | Gujarat Titans | 11 | 17 | 4/24 | 7.56 |
Rabada is the fourth bowler in IPL history to win the Purple Cap twice. He had also topped the wicket-takers’ list in the 2020 edition of the IPL. He played 17 matches for Delhi Capitals that season under Shreyas Iyer’s leadership and dismissed 30 batters.
Dwayne Bravo of Chennai Super Kings was the first player to win the Purple Cap twice in the IPL. He finished as the highest wicket-taker in the 2013 and 2015 editions.
Bhuvneshwar won back-to-back Purple Caps in 2016 and 2017 as a Sunrisers Hyderabad player, while Harshal Patel won the Purple Cap with RCB in 2021 and as a Punjab Kings player in 2024.
Full list of Purple Cap winners in IPL
| YEAR | PLAYER | TEAM | WICKETS |
| 2008 | Sohail Tanvir | Rajasthan Royals | 22 |
| 2009 | RP Singh | Deccan Chargers | 23 |
| 2010 | Pragyan Ojha | Deccan Chargers | 21 |
| 2011 | Lasith Malinga | Mumbai Indians | 28 |
| 2012 | Morne Morkel | Delhi Capitals | 25 |
| 2013 | Dwayne Bravo | Chennai Super Kings | 32 |
| 2014 | Mohit Sharma | Chennai Super Kings | 23 |
| 2015 | Dwayne Bravo | Chennai Super Kings | 26 |
| 2016 | Bhuvneshwar Kumar | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 23 |
| 2017 | Bhuvneshwar Kumar | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 26 |
| 2018 | Andrew Tye | Punjab Kings | 24 |
| 2019 | Imran Tahir | Chennai Super Kings | 26 |
| 2020 | Kagiso Rabada | Delhi Capitals | 30 |
| 2021 | Harshal Patel | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 32 |
| 2022 | Yuzvendra Chahal | Rajasthan Royals | 27 |
| 2023 | Mohammed Shami | Gujarat Titans | 28 |
| 2024 | Harshal Patel | Punjab Kings | 24 |
| 2025 | Prasidh Krishna | Gujarat Titans | 25 |
| 2026 | Kagiso Rabada | Gujarat Titans | 29* |
Rabada is overall the third Gujarat Titans bowler after Mohammed Shami and Prasidh Krishna to win the Purple Cap in the IPL.
Shami topped the wicket-takers’ list in 2023, while Krishna finished as the highest wicket-taker in IPL 2025.
