IPL 2024: Yuzvendra Chahal Leads the Bowling Race for Claims the Purple Cap

The leading wicket-taker of the 2024 IPL for the Rajasthan Royals is Yuzvendra Chahal, the Royals leg spinner who took 2 wickets in their win over RCB and had eight wickets at an economy of 6.35 to achieve his feat. Second in the standing is CSK career specialist Mustafizur Rahman with seven wickets at an economy of 8.83 of four innings. Four of the four wickets yielded in that game alone as it ended with a six-wicket victory for CSK.

Top 5 Players for Purple CAP in IPL 2024:

• Delhi Capitals player Khaleel Ahmed moves to 2nd position on the charts by bagging 7 wickets in 5 matches. 
• Mohit Sharma from Gujrat Titans had to move to 3rd position. 
• Mustafizur Rahman from Chennai Super Kings is in the 4th position.
• With the loss of Lucknow Super Giants against Gujrat Titans, Gerald Coetzee (MI) is in the 5th spot after the match.

For starters, LSG’s Mayank Yadav and Yash Thakur who picked the first 5 for of the current season to help LSG win their first game against RCB on Sunday. These players also performed well:

• Nandre Burger (Royals),
• Kagiso Rabada (Punjab Kings),
• Umesh Yadav (Titans)
• Anrich Nortje (DC).

Mayank who is only LSG's 21-year old fast pacer atop 150kph on speed gun this season with minimum economy rate of 6.0 among the top ten main wicket takers.

This season, players like Rashid Khan, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja, Arshdeep Singh, R Ashwin, and Akash Madhwal will be claim for the IPL 2024 purple crown.