Each year IPL doesn’t only focus on winning the Trophy It is also about having fun as well as the records and the reality of who will take home the purple or orange cap. The IPL 2021 season was an amazing season for the orange and purple cap leaderboard due to the fact that we witnessed several players fight for these titles and let’s talk about the event a bit more.
IPL 2021 Purple Cap Winner: Harshal Patel
It was Harshal Patel during IPL 2021 who took the purple cap home, taking 32 wickets over just 15 games played over the whole season. The most interesting thing is that when he played for the team that is RCB (Royal Challengers Bangalore) He scored 32 wickets. These were the most successful wickets ever that a bowler has taken in one season as it has never been done before in the history of the IPL. This exemplary performance by Harshal Patel took place at the end of 2021. However, don’t overlook that he’s played in IPL since 2012 and even back in 2012 was a part of the RCB team.
In addition, because he performed extremely impressively in the IPL 2021 the following year, he made his way into the 2022 T20 World Cup squad, however, he wasn’t given a chance to play a single game during that time. In the IPL however, after RCB let him go and he signed on playing for Punjab Kings, and as of 2025 is he a part of his SRH (Sunrisers Hyderabad) team.
IPL 2021 Orange Cap Winner: Ruturaj Gaikwad
Imagine that you make your debut in the IPL in 2020? And in the following season you be awarded the orange cap for scoring the most runs during the entire tournament? That’s exactly the way Ruturaj Gaikwad did. When he played in the CSK CSK at the time of 2021, he managed to score approximately 204, and that was a pretty decent result. In 2021, however the team was given more opportunities to showcase his abilities, and do you can guess what he accomplished? He scored an astounding 635 runs with a score of 101* and four fifties in his name in the same year of IPL.
So, it’s no wonder he took home the Orange cap home during IPL 2021. In the following years, however it was a big win for his team during the subsequent IPL seasons too and, since it’s an 18th IPL season currently He’s out of the team as he was injured while performing net training. Therefore, in his place now MS Dhoni is captaining the CSK team.
