IPL career leaderboards · 2007/08 → 2025
All-time IPL leaderboards
14 leaderboard surfaces across the IPL historical SETU snapshot (1,169 matches · 278,205 balls · 18 seasons). Each leaderboard projects from the same canonical aggregate — doctrine §10.151ce P-contract parity guarantees byte-for-byte agreement across every render path.
- Orange cap — most runs
Career top run-scorers across the IPL historical archive (1,169 matches, 18 seasons 2007/08-2025). This is the all-time orange-cap leaderboard.
- Purple cap — most wickets
Career top wicket-takers across the IPL historical archive (1,169 matches, 18 seasons 2007/08-2025).
- Highest batting strike rates
Best batting strike rates with a minimum sample floor. Minimum 30 balls faced.
- Best bowling economy rates
Lowest bowling economy rates with a minimum sample floor. Minimum 15 legal deliveries bowled.
- Most sixes
Top six-hitters across captured IPL matches.
- Most fours
Top boundary-hitters across captured IPL matches.
- Highest individual scores
Highest individual innings scores across captured IPL matches.
- Best bowling — wicket leaders
Wicket totals across captured IPL matches. Per-innings figures available on player profiles.
- Most ducks
Most times dismissed without scoring.
- Most single-digit outs
Most times dismissed for fewer than 10 runs.
- Highest powerplay strike rates
Best batting strike rates in the powerplay (overs 1–6 of a T20 innings). Minimum 30 balls faced in overs 1–6.
- Best death-overs economy
Lowest bowling economy rates in death overs (overs 17–20 of a T20 innings). Minimum 15 legal deliveries bowled in overs 17–20.
- Highest death-overs strike rates
Best batting strike rates in death overs (overs 17–20). Minimum 20 balls faced in overs 17–20.
- Best powerplay economy
Lowest bowling economy rates in the powerplay (overs 1–6). Minimum 18 legal deliveries bowled in overs 1–6.
Sources & methodology
Every leaderboard derives from the canonical IPL historical SETU snapshot at data/_season-stats-ipl-historical.json, walked from ball-by-ball records sourced from Cricsheet under CC BY 3.0. Sample-size floors disclosed per category. IPL 2026 is current-season (Sportmonks-sourced) and not in this archive — see /season/ipl-2026 for live aggregates.