IPL 2025 · Season leaderboard
Purple cap — most wickets
Purple cap — most wickets, IPL 2025: M Prasidh Krishna — 25 Wickets.
IPL 2025 top wicket-takers across the IPL historical archive (1,169 matches, 18 seasons 2007/08-2025).
| # | Player | Wickets | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | M Prasidh KrishnaGT | 25 | 354 legal deliveries bowled |
| 2 | Noor AhmadCSK | 24 | 300 legal deliveries bowled |
| 3 | JR HazlewoodRCB | 22 | 264 legal deliveries bowled |
| 4 | TA BoultMI | 22 | 346 legal deliveries bowled |
| 5 | Arshdeep SinghPBKS | 21 | 350 legal deliveries bowled |
| 6 | R Sai KishoreGT | 19 | 255 legal deliveries bowled |
| 7 | JJ BumrahMI | 18 | 284 legal deliveries bowled |
| 8 | B KumarRCB | 17 | 312 legal deliveries bowled |
| 9 | CV VarunKKR | 17 | 300 legal deliveries bowled |
| 10 | KH PandyaRCB | 17 | 276 legal deliveries bowled |
| 11 | VG AroraKKR | 17 | 255 legal deliveries bowled |
| 12 | HV PatelSRH | 16 | 263 legal deliveries bowled |
| 13 | M JansenPBKS | 16 | 283 legal deliveries bowled |
| 14 | Mohammed SirajGT | 16 | 342 legal deliveries bowled |
| 15 | PJ CumminsSRH | 16 | 298 legal deliveries bowled |
| 16 | YS ChahalPBKS | 16 | 270 legal deliveries bowled |
| 17 | Harshit RanaKKR | 15 | 264 legal deliveries bowled |
| 18 | KK AhmedCSK | 15 | 280 legal deliveries bowled |
| 19 | Kuldeep YadavDC | 15 | 318 legal deliveries bowled |
| 20 | DS RathiLSG | 14 | 312 legal deliveries bowled |
| 21 | HH PandyaMI | 14 | 210 legal deliveries bowled |
| 22 | MA StarcDC | 14 | 233 legal deliveries bowled |
| 23 | Avesh KhanLSG | 13 | 284 legal deliveries bowled |
| 24 | E MalingaSRH | 13 | 160 legal deliveries bowled |
| 25 | M PathiranaCSK | 13 | 251 legal deliveries bowled |
All IPL 2025 leaderboards: /season/ipl-2025 · Across all seasons: all-time purple cap — most wickets.
Provenance. Derived from the IPL historical SETU snapshot (Cricsheet ball-by-ball, IPL 2025), cricsheet.org under CC BY 3.0. Sample-size floors enforced.