As the tournament concluded on Sunday at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Harshal Patel of Punjab Kings clinched the Purple Cap in the IPL 2024.
Harshal concluded the season with an impressive tally of 24 wickets in 14 matches, keeping an economy of 9.73 and an average of 19.87. This is his second purple cap, first one being in 2021 when he played for Royal Challengers Bangalore and took 32 wickets in a single season.
However, during Chakaravarthy’s last match against Sunrisers Hyderabad at Chepauk, he had one more chance to overtake Patel. Unfortunately, only one wicket was taken by Varun as Riders won their third IPL title: it was Shahbaz Ahmed who fell to him.
Chakaravarthy rounded up the season as the runner-up highest wicket taker with scalps of 21 batsmen in 15 appearances.
Although Kohli missed out on becoming this year’ Orange Cap winner; nevertheless Harshal received that honor and became RCB’s first player crowned again as IPL top scorer throughout a campaign.Virat Kohli is a legendary batsman for Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Virat accumulated a total of 741 runs from fifteen matches giving him an incredible average of sixty-one point seventy-five (61.75), including five fifties and one hundred.He attained his best ever strike rate at one hundred fifty-four point sixty-nine (154.69) for any individual IPL campaign.Moreover, he hit thirty-eight sixes this time around which is same figure recorded back then in two thousand sixteen while getting nine hundred seventy-three runs off sixteen innings.
Across this whole season records were tumbling by this man.In those two hundred fifty-two games played thus far in his IPL career, He has totaled eight thousand four runs: batting at thirty eight point six six (38.66) through a strike rate of one hundred thirty-one point nine seven (131.97), hitting eight centuries and fifty five half centuries.His best ever knock in IPL was unbeaten 113.He became the first-ever player to reach eight thousand runs in this competition.
KKR bowled out SRH for their lowest ever final score in the history of the IPL, with SRH posting a mere 113 runs at the end of their twenty overs.
In reply, KKR reached their goal of 114 runs in only ten point three overs which made them win their third title.
