IPL 2021 · Season leaderboard
Purple cap — most wickets
Purple cap — most wickets, IPL 2021: HV Patel — 32 Wickets.
IPL 2021 top wicket-takers across the IPL historical archive (1,169 matches, 18 seasons 2007/08-2025).
| # | Player | Wickets | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HV PatelRCB | 32 | 338 legal deliveries bowled |
| 2 | Avesh KhanDC | 24 | 366 legal deliveries bowled |
| 3 | JJ BumrahMI | 21 | 330 legal deliveries bowled |
| 4 | SN ThakurCSK | 21 | 359 legal deliveries bowled |
| 5 | Mohammed ShamiPBKS | 19 | 316 legal deliveries bowled |
| 6 | Arshdeep SinghPBKS | 18 | 248 legal deliveries bowled |
| 7 | CV VarunKKR | 18 | 408 legal deliveries bowled |
| 8 | Rashid KhanSRH | 18 | 342 legal deliveries bowled |
| 9 | YS ChahalRCB | 18 | 318 legal deliveries bowled |
| 10 | JO HolderSRH | 16 | 191 legal deliveries bowled |
| 11 | SP NarineKKR | 16 | 336 legal deliveries bowled |
| 12 | AR PatelDC | 15 | 282 legal deliveries bowled |
| 13 | CH MorrisRR | 15 | 246 legal deliveries bowled |
| 14 | K RabadaDC | 15 | 336 legal deliveries bowled |
| 15 | C SakariyaRR | 14 | 312 legal deliveries bowled |
| 16 | DJ BravoCSK | 14 | 202 legal deliveries bowled |
| 17 | DL ChaharCSK | 14 | 324 legal deliveries bowled |
| 18 | Mustafizur RahmanRR | 14 | 311 legal deliveries bowled |
| 19 | LH FergusonKKR | 13 | 180 legal deliveries bowled |
| 20 | RA JadejaCSK | 13 | 294 legal deliveries bowled |
| 21 | RD ChaharMI | 13 | 258 legal deliveries bowled |
| 22 | TA BoultMI | 13 | 308 legal deliveries bowled |
| 23 | A NortjeDC | 12 | 182 legal deliveries bowled |
| 24 | M Prasidh KrishnaKKR | 12 | 231 legal deliveries bowled |
| 25 | Ravi BishnoiPBKS | 12 | 216 legal deliveries bowled |
All IPL 2021 leaderboards: /season/ipl-2021 · Across all seasons: all-time purple cap — most wickets.
Provenance. Derived from the IPL historical SETU snapshot (Cricsheet ball-by-ball, IPL 2021), cricsheet.org under CC BY 3.0. Sample-size floors enforced.