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Indian Express
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- Indian Express
IPL Purple Cap Winners List (2008-2025): From Lasith Malinga to Prasidh Krishna; Check full list of highest wicket-takers in IPL
Indian Premier League Purple Cap Winners List from 2008 to 2025 Season: Gujarat Titans ace pacer Prasidh Krishna ended a fine season with the ball to win the Purple Cap in the Indian Premier League 2025 after taking 25 wickets. His economy rate was 8.27 while the average lay under 20. His best bowling figures were 4/41. Gujarat Titans finished third in the standings, earning a spot in the playoffs. They were beaten by the Mumbai Indians in the Eliminator before Royal Challengers Bengaluru ended an 18-year wait to lift their maiden IPL after beating Punjab Kings by 6 runs in Ahmedabad's Narendra Modi Stadium on Tuesday. After reaching IPL finals on three different occasions — 2009, 2011, and 2016 — this was the first time when RCB lifted the IPL title. For Punjab, it was their second loss in the final after Kolkata Knight Riders beat them in 2014. Chennai Super Kings' 10cr signing Noor Ahmad was second in the list with 24 scalps this year, while instrumental in RCB's title-winning run, Josh Hazlewood is third alongside Mumbai Indians' gun pacer Trent Boult. Both of them have picked up 22 wickets each. This is the second instance where a GT bowler has won the Purple Cap. Earlier, Mohammed Shami picked 28 wickets in 17 matches to win the Purple Cap in 2023. GT did the double in both the most run-getters list and the highest wicket-takers list. Apart from Krishna's Purple Cap, GT opener Sai Sudharan scored 759 runs to win the Orange Cap. (Table updated after RCB vs PBKS IPL 2025 Final)
The Hindu
29-05-2025
- Sport
- The Hindu
The rise and rise of the young Indian cricketers
In an era long gone by, Afghanistan's left-arm wrist-spinner Noor Ahmad would have walked away with the Purple Cap for being the highest wicket-taker at the conclusion of the league phase of the Indian Premier League. Noor might still do so – he leads this year's race with 24 wickets despite his team, Chennai Super Kings, propping up the table for the first time in the tournament's history – but if Prasidh Krishna continues his red-hot form, he will get at least one opportunity to build on his tally of 23 wickets when Gujarat Titans take on Mumbai Indians in Friday's Eliminator in Mullanpur. The IPL is essentially by the Indians and for the Indians – yes, yes, it does include top players from most of the rest of the world – and never has that been more apparent than in Season 18, when Indian stars established and emerging have taken the tournament by storm. There are notable exceptions, as there are bound to be – Noor, for one, alongside Trent Boult and Josh Hazlewood among the bowlers -- and Mitch Marsh, Jos Buttler and Nicholas Pooran when it comes to the batters. But homegrown talent has held massive sway, reiterating that the future of Indian T20 cricket, at the very least, is in safe, competent, young hands. The phenoms No one is younger, of course, than the kid from Samastipur in Bihar who very few knew about two months back. Vaibhav Suryavanshi had made his Ranji Trophy debut at 13 and already scored a century for India Under-19 against Australia Under-19 in a four-day 'Test' last year, but it was the grand stage that the IPL is that propelled him into international limelight. At 14 years and 32 days, he became the youngest batter to score a century in senior T20 cricket; his 35-ball ton for Rajasthan Royals against Gujarat Titans is the fastest by an Indian. He might have begun the tournament as a starry-eyed teenager who must have gobbled at a price tag of ₹1.1 crore, but he ends it a marked lad, someone of whom great things are already being expected and who is, unfairly, drawing comparison with India's most famous teen phenom, a certain Sachin Tendulkar. Suryavanshi and his India Under-19 captain Ayush Mhatre, who sparkled after belatedly being blooded by CSK, are already spreading waves of awe and fear within the junior fraternity – outside it, too, but it's the Under-19 opponents who are most likely to feel the brunt of their fury in the immediate future. The Indian colts travel to England next month for five 50-over games and two four-day fixtures. Perhaps echoing the sentiments of the rest of the cricket world, former New Zealand captain and CSK coach Stephen Fleming admitted he worried 'a little bit about the Under-19 oppositions that will come up against two pretty handy openers when the World Cup comes around.' 'It's amazing how much talent they have, how composed they are,' Fleming, who himself was only 19 when he first played for his country, crowed. The swashbuckling 14-year-old left-hander and the more orthodox 17-year-old right-hander from Mumbai headlined a rash of extraordinary but lesser-known talent that took the league stage of the tournament by storm with the bat. Priyansh Arya might appear of a different vintage from the two teenagers – he is only 24 but how do you compete with 14 and 17 for eyeballs? – but he has had a memorable first season. Bought by Punjab Kings for ₹3.8 crore, he has more than justified the price tag and the expectations with 424 runs at the whopping strike-rate of 183.6, showing that marrying consistency with naked aggression comes reasonably easy to him. He announced himself early in the tournament with a hundred and hasn't disappointed since; like his equally fearsome opening partner Prabhsimran Singh (499 runs), he will have at least two more chances to add to that tally, given that the Kings have made it to the playoffs (as the top-ranked team, no less) for the first time since 2014. Racking it up Of the 10 batters who racked up more than 500 runs in the league phase are seven Indians, none of whom can be called a newcomer by any stretch of imagination. B. Sai Sudharsan, who leads the race for the Orange Cap with 679 runs, 30 more than Gujarat Titans opening partner and new India Test skipper Shubman Gill, is perhaps the 'newest comer' of this bunch. The other five – Suryakumar Yadav, Virat Kohli (who has topped 600 runs for a third season on the bounce), Yashasvi Jaiswal, K.L. Rahul and Shreyas Iyer – have all been there and done that. Indians have accounted for seven of the nine hundreds this far (Mitchell Marsh and Heinrich Klaasen are the exceptions). Outside of this '500 club' and those mentioned previously, Abhishek Sharma has continued on his merry way, Ishan Kishan has sets hearts aflutter in Hyderabad and who can forget Jitesh Sharma's extraordinary onslaught on Tuesday night that muscled Royal Challengers Bengaluru past Rishabh Pant's Lucknow Super Giants and to the second place at the end of the league skirmishes? Openers Sai Sudharsan and Gill, alongside former England skipper Buttler who will miss the playoffs due to international commitments, accounted for the bulk of Gujarat's runs this season. The left-handed Sai Sudharsan and his equally classy right-hander mirror-image captain have together put on 909 runs as an opening pair, including an unseparated 205 against Delhi Capitals in a most surreal run-chase. A little while back, in the immediacy of Rohit Sharma and Kohli's retirement from T20Is, it seemed as if Gill and Jaiswal would be the long-term 20-over openers for the country, an opinion that gathered pace when they put on 67 and 156 (unbroken) in successive outings in Zimbabwe last July. Then, Abhishek and Sanju Samson threatened to queer the pitch with Gill and Jaiswal away on Test duty. Now, a new pair is in town, making it impossible to overlook its exploits. India seem spoiled for batting choices. See how Tilak Varma, who made successive centuries whilst batting at No. 3 in South Africa last December, hasn't even figured in this piece till now? These are the obvious success stories but there are others who don't have the same inflated numbers and yet have made a grand impact – men like Dhruv Jurel, Ayush Badoni, Ashutosh Sharma, Shashank Singh, even Vipraj Nigam and Riyan Parag, who smashed six sixes in as many deliveries (spread over two overs) in a losing cause. Several of them have been around for a while and while Jurel and Parag are already internationals, the rest know that if they aspire to don the India Blue, they still have plenty of work ahead of them. What a luxury for T20 captain Suryakumar, head coach Gautam Gambhir and selection panel chief Ajit Agarkar to be able to dip into an overflowing pool of riches that is clearly the envy of the rest of the world. If the batters have hogged the space till now, put it down to cricket being a batter's game. But India's bowling group hasn't been too shabby either. Of the 17 bowlers who had at least 15 wickets after the 70-match first phase, only five are non-Indians. There is a nice blend of the proven and the promising, of pacers and spinners, of left-armers and right-armers, of the orthodox and the unconventional among the dozen Indians in that grouping. There is Jasprit Bumrah – of course there will be Jasprit Bumrah, even if he missed the first four matches – and there are the usual suspects, Arshdeep Singh and Varun Chakaravarthy and Harshal Patel and Kuldeep Yadav but most heartening must be the form shown by Prasidh and the spunk revealed by R. Sai Kishore, the curly-mopped other left-handed 'Sai' from Chennai who led the State side in the Ranji Trophy last season. Prasidh has been terrific to watch all season, making use of his bounce and his recent burst of confidence and feel-good to produce wicket-taking deliveries with exceptional consistency. He is among the tallest fast bowlers in India currently and is beginning to make excellent use of that feature, hitting the lengths that make it impossible for batters to get him away. His wickets have come at one every 14.34 deliveries but that's not only because batters have tried to go after him. He hasn't 'bought' his wickets, if you like, as an economy of 7.90 runs an over will testify. Having impressed on his Test comeback after 12 months in Sydney in January, it will be a huge surprise if he doesn't line up alongside Bumrah at Headingley in three weeks' time when the first Test gets underway. This isn't a case of the IPL fast-tracking a Test career, it is just that Prasidh has reiterated that even in 20-over cricket, traditional values will still hold a bowler in grand stead. Sai Kishore tapered off a little after a glorious start but like Prasidh, he is also a smart and orthodox cookie but hardly unidimensional. He has been on the selectors' radar for a while and with Ravindra Jadeja in the autumn of his career, should fancy his chances across formats though the re-emergence of Krunal Pandya, who has 15 wickets to Sai Kishore's 17 but is handier with the bat, might dictate otherwise, at least in the 20-over game. To many, the IPL is an opportunity to make a very good livelihood out of cricket while reconciling to the knowledge that they might not seriously tickle the national selectors' mind space. To others like Sai Kishore, the IPL is only a springboard to greater heights, stemming from a realistic assessment of one's abilities and aspirations. As the tournament hurtles towards its business end, there will be grandstand performances, for sure, but it will take something special to overshadow the league riches. Now, that's something to look forward to, right?
Time of India
26-05-2025
- Sport
- Time of India
Who won yesterday's IPL matches - GT vs CSK, SRH vs KKR: Yesterday IPL match report
Image credit: BCCI/IPL Sunrisers Hyderabad began IPL 2025 with a record-breaking bang, posting the second-highest total in tournament history. But what followed was a dramatic slump that saw their playoff hopes fade. In their final match of the season, however, SRH returned to their explosive best. At the Arun Jaitley Stadium, they piled up a colossal 278/3 on a batting-friendly surface and crushed Kolkata Knight Riders by 110 runs in a dominant farewell performance. Elsewhere, Chennai Super Kings ended their campaign on a high as well, registering a massive 83-run win over Gujarat Titans at the Narendra Modi Stadium. Afghan spinner Noor Ahmad and India's Anshul Khamboj picked up three wickets apiece, while Ravindra Jadeja chipped in with two to trigger a collapse and bowl GT out for 147 in 18.3 overs. Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW! Back in Delhi, it was Heinrich Klaasen who stole the limelight. The South African blazed his way to an unbeaten 105 off just 39 balls, reaching his second IPL hundred in just 37 deliveries—tied for the third-fastest century in IPL history. His knock, laced with 7 fours and 9 sixes at a staggering strike rate of 269.23, helped SRH post the third-highest total ever in the league. Promoted to No. 3, Klaasen capitalized in style, punishing the KKR bowlers with powerful drives down the ground and dominant pull shots off anything short. Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like 3BHK Transformation Possible for ₹4.5 Lakh? HomeLane Get Quote Undo He found a reliable partner in Travis Head, who smashed a 40-ball 76—his third fifty of the season—with six fours and six sixes. Cameos from Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, and Aniket Verma added to the late flourish, as SRH hammered 74 runs in the final five overs. More Than a Team: The Rise of CSK & the Whistle Podu Army Chasing 279, KKR needed a miracle, but their top order crumbled. Jaydev Unadkat struck early, while Ehsan Malinga (3/31) and Harsh Dubey (3/34) cleaned up the middle and lower order. KKR were bowled out for 168 in 18.4 overs—ending their campaign with their heaviest defeat in IPL history. SRH, with the thumping win, moved up to sixth in the standings. In Ahmedabad, CSK's bowlers delivered a clinical performance to hand Gujarat Titans a potentially costly defeat. After setting a challenging target, Chennai's spin and pace combo dismantled GT's batting unit. With this result, GT's chances of finishing in the top two now hang in the balance. Shubman Gill story: From a remote village near the border to India's Test captain The playoff equation has now become intense. The winner of Monday's clash between Mumbai Indians and Punjab Kings will leapfrog Gujarat on the table, while Royal Challengers Bengaluru could push them further down to the Eliminator spot if they beat Lucknow Super Giants in the final league fixture. CSK, meanwhile, will be relieved to end their season on a high, though they couldn't boost their net run-rate enough to climb above Rajasthan Royals. The five-time champions finish at the bottom of the points table for the first time in their storied history. Get IPL 2025 match schedules , squads , points table , and live scores for CSK , MI , RCB , KKR , SRH , LSG , DC , GT , PBKS , and RR . Check the latest IPL Orange Cap and Purple Cap standings.
NDTV
25-05-2025
- Sport
- NDTV
Gujarat Titans Miss Chance To Finish In Top 2, Lose To Bottom-Placed Chennai Super Kings
Afghanistan spinner Noor Ahmad and India's Anshul Khamboj took three wickets each, while Ravindra Jadeja claimed two scalps, to trigger a batting collapse as Chennai Super Kings bundled out hosts Gujarat Titans for 147 in 18.3 overs for a big win in Match 67 of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 here on Sunday. It turned out to be a Super Sunday for Chennai Super Kings as the five-time champions ended their season with a massive 83-run victory over Gujarat Titans at the Narendra Modi Stadium. This is a massive result in the scope of the IPL playoffs. With this loss, Gujarat Titans' hopes of finishing among the top two are in serious jeopardy. The winner of the clash between Mumbai Indians and Punjab Kings, on Monday, will move past them in the table, and Royal Challengers Bengaluru could push them down further into an Eliminator spot with a win over Lucknow Super Giants in the final league game of the season. Opting to bat first, CSK rode on fifties by Dewald Brevis and Devon Conway, coupled with quick-fire innings by young guns Ayush Mhatre and Urvish Patel, to post a massive total of 230/5 in 20 overs. With a big total to defend, skipper M.S. Dhoni began the second innings by entrusting the ball to his most experienced bowler, Ravindra Jadeja, and he responded by conceding seven runs in the first over. Shubman Gill (13) and Sai Sudharsan (41) got off the mark with a boundary each off Khaleel Ahmed in the next over. Gill then played a glorious straight drive, after coming down the pitch, and dispatched Kamboj for a six down the ground. However, the 24-year-old Kamboj struck back on the next delivery, finding Gill's outside edge, which went to Urvil Patel in the slips. Things went from bad to worse for Gujarat Titans when Jos Buttler (7) slashed at Khaleel's back-of-the-length delivery outside off, which Kamboj made no mistake in grabbing a catch. Sherfane Rutherford's brief time at the crease came to an end when he mistimed a pull shot and departed for a duck for Kamboj's second wicket on the day to reduce GT to 35/3 by the end of the power-play. Sudharsan stood tall at one end, playing a gritty knock, trying to prevent a collapse. He added 54 runs in partnership with Shahrukh Khan (19) for the fourth wicket. The duo started to ramp up in the 10th over and conjured 18 runs off Shivam Dube, but Jadeja refused to let GT back in the game and claimed the scalps of both batters in the next over. A thick edge off the bat of Shahrukh, on the first ball of the over, saw the ball go to Pathirana at short third-man, which the Sri Lankan quick almost fumbled. Sudharsan soon followed his partner to the dugout when a slightly shorter delivery saw him hit straight to Dube at backward point. From thereon, GT virtually stood little to no chance of clawing back into the game. Rashid Khan (12) fell, after hitting a four and a six, to national team compatriot Noor Ahmad. Matheesha Pathrina uprooted Gerald Coetzee's (5) leg stump. Rahul Tewatia (14) and Arshad Khan (20) treated the fans in Ahmedabad for a few maximums but could not provide much relief as both fell to Noor Ahmad, who moved past Prasidh Krishna to grab the Purple Cap worn by the leading wicket-taker. Kamboj was reintroduced into attack in the penultimate over and claimed his third, and final, wicket of the match by dismissing Sai Kishore to seal the 83-run victory. Earlier, in the first innings, Ayush Mhatre gave his side a strong start, which included 28 runs off Arshad Khan in the second over before a slower-fullish delivery by Prasidh Krishna saw the 17-year-old try and get under it but mistiming it straight to Siraj at mid-off to end his 17-ball blitz. Urvish Patel started his innings strongly with a six off Siraj before Conway struck Prasidh for consecutive boundaries to tie CSK's highest power-play score for the season with 68/1 in the six overs. Sai Kishore dismissed Patel after being hit for a six on the first ball of the 10th over as the natter sliced the ball to Gill at extra cover. Shivam Dube did not take too long to get going and smashed Kishore for a six, straight down the ground, to get off the mark. With Conway getting closer to his fifty, Shahrukh Khan dismissed Dube to claim his first wicket in the tournament. A full-length ball, angled towards the batter's pads, saw Gerald Coetzee take a simple catch. The Kiwi batter reached his 11th tournament half-century with a six off Rashid, in 34 deliveries, in an innings laced with six boundaries and two maximums, before being bowled over on the next delivery. While Ravindra Jadeja rotated the strike, Dewald Brevis kept CSK on course for a huge total. A maximum off Rashid, a six and four off Coetzee, followed by a reverse sweep boundary off Arshad, saw CSK reach the 200-run mark with two overs to spare. From there, the Proteas batter switched gears and smashed Siraj for consecutive sixes before finding the boundary, and the backward point saw Brevis score his second half-century of the season in 19 deliveries. Prasidh continued his economical bowling in the final over, barring one six, and went for nine runs before a short ball, on the final delivery of the innings, saw Brevis edge the ball, which went straight up, and Jos Buttler made no mistake in completing the catch. CSK will be relieved to end the season with a victory, unfortunately, they could not elevate their net run-rate to move past the Rajasthan Royals and confirmed their bottom-placed finish for the first time in franchise history. Brief scores: Chennai Super Kings 230/5 in 20 overs (Dewald Brevis 57, Devon Conway 52; Prasidh Krishna 2-22, Rashid Khan 1-42) beat Gujarat Titans 147 all out in 18.3 overs (Sai Sudharsan 41, Arshad Khan 20; Anshul Kamboj 3-13, Noor Ahmad 3-21, Ravindra Jadeja 2-17) by 83 runs
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Business Standard
22-05-2025
- Sport
- Business Standard
Prasidh Krishna to Noor Ahmad: Full list of IPL 2025 Purple Cap contenders
The 18th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), that is, IPL 2025, has been one of the most competitive seasons of all time, with players from every team giving their all to ensure the success of their side. The scenario in IPL 2025's Purple Cap race is just as competitive as it can possibly be, with just four wickets separating the player at the number one spot from the player at number five. The crown of highest wicket-taker this season is currently with Prasidh Krishna of Gujarat Titans, who has 21 wickets in 13 matches. The second spot is held by Noor Ahmad of Chennai Super Kings, who also has the same number of wickets in a similar number of matches but is in second place due to an inferior net run rate. Mumbai Indians' Trent Boult (19 wickets) and Royal Challengers Bengaluru's Josh Hazlewood (18 wickets) are next on the list and have a better chance of overtaking Prasidh at the top, as both MI and RCB have qualified for the playoffs. Varun Chakravarthy of KKR, with 17 wickets, is in fifth place, but his team has only one match left this season and is unlikely to improve his position significantly. But how does the Purple Cap race look overall? Take a look at the full list of top wicket-takers of IPL 2025 below. POS Player Team Wkts Mat BBI Avg Econ SR 4w 5w 1 Prasidh Krishna GT 21 13 4 for 41 19.66 8.09 14.57 1 0 2 Noor Ahmad CSK 21 13 4 for 18 18.42 8.41 13.14 2 0 3 Trent Boult MI 19 13 4 for 26 20.36 8.38 14.57 1 0 4 Josh Hazlewood RCB 18 10 4 for 33 17.27 8.44 12.27 1 0 5 Varun Chakaravarthy KKR 17 12 3 for 22 19.35 7 16.58 0 0 6 Jasprit Bumrah MI 16 9 4 for 22 14.12 6.39 13.25 1 0 7 Arshdeep Singh PBKS 16 12 3 for 16 21.93 8.7 15.12 0 0 8 Sai Kishore GT 16 13 3 for 30 20.5 8.98 13.68 0 0 9 Vaibhav Arora KKR 16 11 3 for 29 24.43 10.15 14.43 0 0 10 Mohammed Siraj GT 15 13 4 for 17 29.53 9.04 19.6 1 0 11 Harshal Patel SRH 15 11 4 for 28 24.66 9.73 15.2 2 0 12 Harshit Rana KKR 15 12 3 for 25 27.2 9.95 16.4 0 0 13 Digvesh Singh LSG 14 12 2 for 30 28.07 8.18 20.57 0 0 14 Krunal Pandya RCB 14 11 4 for 45 21.42 8.57 15 1 0 15 Yuzvendra Chahal PBKS 14 12 4 for 28 25.28 9.56 15.85 2 0 16 Khaleel Ahmed CSK 14 13 3 for 29 30.71 9.84 18.71 0 0 17 Mitchell Starc DC 14 11 5 for 35 26.14 10.16 15.42 0 1 18 Kuldeep Yadav DC 13 13 3 for 22 24.76 6.85 21.69 0 0 19 Pat Cummins SRH 13 12 3 for 19 30.53 9.09 20.15 0 0 20 Marco Jansen PBKS 13 12 3 for 17 27.61 9.16 18.07 0 0
