IPL highest wicket-taker list (2008-2021): Check the number of wickets taken by Lasith Malinga, Jasprit Bumrah, Yuzvendra Chahal, Hardik Pandya and more

Sep 29, 2021, 18:48 IST

IPL highest wicket-taker list: Lasith Malinga tops the list of the highest wicket-taker in IPL history with 170 wickets against his name, followed by Amit Mishra who scalped 166 wickets in 154 matches that he has played followed by Dwayne Bravo his number three on the list with 162 wickets in 146 IPL matches. Check the complete list here.

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Sri Lankan bowler Lasith Malinga tops the list of the highest wicket-taker in IPL history. He has 170 wickets against his name and is the only player in the world who has two world cup hat-tricks to his name. Indian player Amit Mishra bags the second spot in the list scalping 166 wickets in 154 matches that he has played followed by Dwayne Bravo his number three on the list with 162 wickets in 146 IPL matches. Check the complete list here.

List of most wickets in IPL history (2008-2021)

Rank	Player	Matches	Wickets	Average	4 wickets in an over	5 wickets in an over
1	Lasith Malinga	122	170	19.80	6	1
2	Amit Mishra	154	166	23.97	4	1
3	Dwayne Bravo	146	162	24.26	2	0
4	Piyush Chawla	164	156	27.32	2	0
5	Harbhajan Singh	163	150	26.86	1	1
6	Ravichandran Ashwin	162	141	27.75	1	0
7	Bhuvneshwar Kumar	129	141	24.88	2	1
8	Sunil Narine	128	136	24.69	6	1
9	Yuzvendra Chahal	109	130	22.86	2	0
10	Jasprit Bumrah	103	125	23.30	2	0
11	Ravindra Jadeja	194	121	30.54	3	1
12	Umesh Yadav	121	119	30.07	2	0
13	Sandeep Sharma	98	112	25.27	2	0
14	Ashish Nehra	88	106	23.53	1	0
15	Vinay Kumar	105	105	28.24	1	0
16	Zaheer Khan	100	102	27.27	1	0
17	Dale Steyn	95	97	25.85	0	0
18	Chris Morris	79	94	23.58	4	0
19	Shane Watson	145	92	29.15	1	0
20	Mohit Sharma	86	92	26.84	1	0
21	Praveen Kumar	119	90	36.12	0	0
22	RP Singh	82	90	25.97	2	0
23	Axar Patel	104	89	29.53	1	0
24	Pragyan Ojha	92	89	26.20	0	0
25	Rashid Khan	72	88	20.26	0	0
26	Dhawal Kulkarni	92	86	28.76	1	0
27	Albie Morkel	91	85	27.70	1	0
28	Jaydev Unadkat	85	85	30.03	0	2
29	Imran Tahir	59	82	20.76	3	0
30	Irfan Pathan	103	80	33.11	0	0
31	Morne Morkel	70	77	27.12	1	0
32	Lakshmipathy Balaji	73	76	26.68	3	1
33	Munaf Patel	63	74	22.94	2	1
34	Kagiso Rabada	45	74	19.22	4	0
35	Trent Boult	59	74	25.74	1	0
36	Mohammad Shami	76	74	31.32	0	0
37	Ishant Sharma	93	73	37.02	0	1
38	Andre Russell	84	72	26.40	1	1
39	Rajat Bhatia	95	71	28.45	1	0
40	Mitchell McClenaghan	56	71	25.39	1	0
41	Harshal Patel	58	69	24.07	1	1
42	Ashok Dinda	78	68	30.45	1	0
43	Siddharth Trivedi	76	65	29.29	1	0
44	Jacques Kallis	98	65	35.27	0	0
45	Kieron Pollard	175	65	31.33	1	0
46	Muttiah Muralitharan	66	63	26.92	0	0
47	Shakib Al Hasan	66	61	28.40	0	0
48	Mitchell Johnson	54	61	27.90	0	0
49	Karn Sharma	67	59	27.28	2	0
50	James Faulkner	60	59	30.13	0	2
51	Shane Warne	55	57	25.38	1	0
52	Deepak Chahar	58	56	27.67	2	0
53	Siddarth Kaul	50	56	28.12	1	0
54	Shardul Thakur	55	56	30.08	0	0
55	Krunal Pandya	82	50	34.78	0	0
56	Shahbaz Nadeem	72	48	37.16	0	0
57	Shreyas Gopal	47	48	25.81	1	0
58	Shadab Jakati	59	47	30.85	2	0
59	Jofra Archer	35	46	21.32	0	0
60	Mohammed Siraj	45	46	28.80	1	0
61	Anil Kumble	42	45	23.51	2	1
62	Ryan Harris	37	45	23.26	1	0
63	Sreenath Aravind	38	45	23.08	2	0
64	Rahul Chahar	42	43	25.97	1	0
65	Yusuf Pathan	174	42	33.69	0	0
66	Varun Aaron	50	42	34.02	0	0
67	Hardik Pandya	89	42	31.26	0	0
68	Nathan Coulter-Nile	35	41	23.87	1	0
69	Rahul Sharma	44	40	27.15	0	0
70	Iqbal Abdulla	49	40	27.72	0	0
71	Shanthakumaran Sreesanth	44	40	29.85	0	0
72	Kuldeep Yadav	45	40	30.90	1	0
73	Andrew Tye	27	40	21.80	3	1
74	Parvinder Awana	33	39	26.38	1	0
75	Moises Henriques	60	39	32.51	0	0
76	Pat Cummins	37	38	30.13	1	0
77	Doug Bollinger	27	37	18.72	1	0
78	Manpreet Gony	44	37	34.78	0	0
79	Yuvraj Singh	132	36	29.91	2	0
80	Mustafizur Rahman	34	35	28.20	0	0
81	Pradeep Sangwan	39	35	33.57	0	0
82	Mitchell Starc	27	34	20.38	1	0
83	Pawan Negi	50	34	27.61	1	0
84	Dan Christian	44	34	32.29	0	0
85	Kevon Cooper	25	33	22.93	1	0
86	Khaleel Ahmed	24	32	24.56	0	0
87	Sam Curran	31	32	29.37	1	0
88	Murali Kartik	56	31	44.77	0	0
89	Thisara Perera	37	31	32.77	0	0
90	Chris Woakes	21	30	21.93	0	0
91	Prasidh Krishna	34	30	38.40	1	0
92	Marcus Stoinis	55	30	32.30	1	0
93	Varun Chakravarthy	25	29	23.82	0	1
94	Azhar Mahmood	23	29	24.13	0	0
95	Tim Southee	41	29	45.58	0	0
96	Ajit Agarkar	42	29	39.68	0	0
97	Daniel Vettori	34	28	31.39	0	0
98	Dirk Nannes	29	28	28.03	0	0
99	Rahul Tewatia	44	28	33.82	0	0
100	Pravin Tambe	33	28	30.46	1	0

Purple Cap is awarded to the bowler who has clinched the most wickets in the IPL tournament during the course of the season. The bowler who is awarded the purple cap wears it when fielding while the overall leading wicket-taker at the conclusion of the tournament winning the actual Purple Cap award on the day of the season's final. In case of a tie, the bowler with a superior economy rate would hold the Purple Cap. Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Dwayne Bravo are the only players to have won the title twice.

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