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IPL 2024 orange cap: Virat Kohli, purple cap

IPL 2024 orange cap: Virat Kohli, purple cap

Who is the orange watch keeper in IPL 2024?

Virat Kohli is the top run-scorer in IPL 2024 with 361 runs in seven games for Royal Challengers Bengaluru.

Sunrisers Hyderabad's Travis Hoof is second with 324 in six matches after his brutal 89 off 32 balls against Delhi Capitals on Saturday.

Riyan Parag of Rajasthan Royals is ranked no. 3 with 318 runs. Mumbai Indians' Rohit Sharma is in fourth place with 297 runs. Lucknow Super Giants skipper KL Rahul, who scored 82 to help his side beat Chennai Super Kings on Friday night, is fifth with 286 runs.

Kolkata Knight Riders' Sunil Narine is sixth with 276 runs in six matches. In seventh place is Sanju Samson, captain of Rajasthan Royals, who also has 276 runs but has a lower strike rate than Narine.

Next is Heinrich Klaasen of Sunrisers Hyderabad who has 268 runs after seven matches. He is followed by Gujarat Titans captain Shubman Gill (263 runs) at the ninth position. Abhishek Sharma of Sunrisers completes the top ten with 257 runs

Among the top 20 run-scorers, Travis Head has the best strike rate at 216. His team-mate Abhishek follows him at 215.96 and Klaassen at 198.51.

Jos Buttler is the leading century maker in this year's IPL with two hundreds. Rohit, Narine, Kohli and Head are the other batsmen who have scored a century this season. Four batsmen, Parag, Samson, Quinton de Kock and Klaasen, have three fifties in IPL 2024.

Who is the purple cap holder in IPL 2024?

Mumbai Indians' Jasprit Bumrah, who took 3 for 26 against PBKS on Thursday, is the no. 1 in the IPL scorers list. His 13 wickets came at an economy of 5.96, the best among the top 20 bowlers.

Rajasthan Royals leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal is No. 2 with 12 wickets in seven matches with an economy rate of 8.34. MI seamer Gerald Coetzee is also on 12 wickets but with a higher economy of 9.92. Chennai Super Kings seamer Mustafizur Rahman ranks fourth with 11 wickets in six matches.

Six bowlers have ten wickets each: Kuldeep Yadav, who took 4 for 55 against Sunrisers on Saturday, and Khaleel Ahmed of Delhi Capitals; T Natarajan of Sunrisers; and Sam Curran, Kagiso Rabada and Harshal Patel of PBKS.

Pat Cummins, captain of Sunrisers; Matheesha Pathiran of CSK; Mukesh Kumar of DC; and Punjab's Arshdeep Singh follows with nine wickets.

Two bowlers are tied for eight wickets: Yash Thakur of LSG and Mohit Sharma of Titans.

Bumrah and Thakur are the only bowlers to have taken five overs this year. Five bowlers, Pathiran, Kuldeep, Mustafizur, Arshdeep and Coetzee took four innings.

Chahal and Kuldeep are the only spinners among the 15 most successful bowlers in IPL 2024.

Here is the complete list of best wickets in IPL 2024.

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