IPL 2022 Orange and Purple Cap: The Orange and Purple caps of this season of IPL are still occupied by the players of Rajasthan. Rajasthan opener Jos Buttler remains the highest run-scorer of this season and spinner Yuzvendra Chahal of this team is the highest wicket-taker this time. Chahal has been behind once or twice in the Purple Cap race, but in the case of Orange Cap, no batsman has been able to beat Butler so far this season. Butler’s possession of the Orange Cap is intact since the second week of IPL.
Butler is getting a competition from KL Rahul and de Kock
Butler has scored 629 runs in 14 matches so far this season at a batting average of 48.38 and a blistering strike rate of 146.96. He is far ahead of other batsmen in terms of scoring runs. Butler is followed by Lucknow Super Giants captain KL Rahul and opener Quinton de Kock. Both these players have scored more than 500 runs.
position | batsman | match | Run | batting average | strike rate |
1 | joss butler | 14 | 629 | 48.38 | 146.96 |
2 | KL Rahul | 14 | 537 | 48.82 | 135.26 |
3 | quinton de kock | 14 | 502 | 38.62 | 149.40 |
4 | Faf du Plessis | 14 | 443 | 34.08 | 130.67 |
5 | David Warner | 12 | 432 | 48.00 | 150.52 |
There is a competition among these bowlers for the Purple Cap
The race to win the Purple Cap is very interesting. There are five bowlers who are involved in this race by taking more than 20 wickets. Chahal and Vanindu are at the forefront. Chahal has 26 wickets while Wanindu has 24 wickets. Rabada, Umran Malik and Kuldeep Yadav are also not far behind them.
position | bowler | match | wicket | bowling average | economy rate |
1 | Yuzvendra Chahal | 14 | 26 | 16.53 | 7.67 |
2 | Vanindu Hasranga | 14 | 24 | 15.08 | 7.38 |
3 | Kagiso Rabada | 12 | 22 | 16.72 | 8.36 |
4 | Kuldeep Yadav | 14 | 21 | 19.95 | 8. 43 |
5 | Umran Malik | 13 | 21 | 20.00 | 8.93 |
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