IPL 2025 Purple Cap Standings: Updated Most Wickets List After PBKS Vs RR Match
Most Wickets in IPL 2025, Purple Cap: The latest bowling leaderboard after PBKS vs RR. Find out the top wicket-takers, their economy rates, and Purple Cap rankings.
Most Wickets in IPL 2025, Purple Cap: Jofra Archer picked up three wickets and Maheesh Theekshana and Sandeep Sharma dismissed two batters each on Saturday (April 5) to help Rajasthan Royals secure a memorable win by 50 runs over Punjab Kings in the IPL 2025 match played at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium in Mullanpur. While Archer bowled Priyansh Arya (0) and Shreyas Iyer (10) in the first over, Theekshana accounted for the dismissals of Glenn Maxwell (30) and Marco Jansen (3).
Whereas Sandeep caught and bowled Marcus Stoinis (1) first and then dismissed Suryansh Shedge (2). The Mumbai-based cricketer was caught by Shimron Hetmyer on the first ball of the 17th over of the run chase.
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Earlier during the first half of the PBKS-RR match, Lockie Ferguson picked up two wickets for 37 runs in four overs, and left-arm pacer Arshdeep Singh finished with figures of 1 for 35 in four overs.
Most Wickets in IPL 2025 – Purple Cap leaderboard after PBKS vs RR match
| POSITION | PLAYER | TEAM | MATCHES | WICKETS | ECONOMY RATE | BEST FIGURES |
| 1. | Noor Ahmad | Chennai Super Kings | 4 | 10 | 7.86 | 4/18 |
| 2. | Mitchell Starc | Delhi Capitals | 3 | 9 | 8.91 | 5/35 |
| 3. | Khaleel Ahmed | Chennai Super Kings | 4 | 8 | 7.50 | 3/29 |
| 4. | Hardik Pandya | Mumbai Indians | 3 | 8 | 7.50 | 5/36 |
| 5. | Shardul Thakur | Lucknow Super Giants | 4 | 7 | 10.15 | 4/34 |
| 6. | Kuldeep Yadav | Delhi Capitals | 3 | 6 | 6.00 | 3/22 |
| 7. | Varun Chakaravarthy | Kolkata Knight Riders | 4 | 6 | 6.26 | 3/22 |
| 8. | Josh Hazlewood | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 3 | 6 | 7.26 | 3/21 |
| 9. | R Sai Kishore | Gujarat Titans | 3 | 6 | 7.41 | 3/30 |
| 10. | Digvesh Rathi | Lucknow Super Giants | 4 | 6 | 7.62 | 2/30 |
In the afternoon match of April 5, Chennai Super Kings suffered a defeat by 25 runs against Delhi Capitals at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. In that match, Noor Ahmad picked up one wicket for CSK to extend his lead at the top of bowlers with the most wickets. He is followed by Delhi Capitals left-arm pacer Mitchell Starc and CSK teammate Khaleel Ahmed.
After finishing with figures of 1 for 27 in four overs, Starc has extended his tally of wickets to 9 in three matches, whereas two wickets for 25 runs in four overs at Chepauk helped Khaleel take his tally to eight wickets in four matches for the Men in Yellow.
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