List of Indian Premier League awards


The Indian Premier League is a Twenty20 cricket competition based in India. The tournament honours players with several awards at the end of each season. These include the Orange Cap, Purple Cap, Maximum Sixes Award, Most Valuable Player and Emerging Player of the Year, among others.

Orange Cap

The Orange Cap, currently known as the Aramco Orange Cap for sponsorship reasons, is presented to the leading run scorer in the Indian Premier League. It was introduced on 25 April 2008, a week after the start of the inaugural season of the IPL. The batsman with most runs in the tournament during the course of the season would wear the Orange Cap while fielding, with the overall leading run-scorer at the conclusion of the tournament winning the actual Orange Cap award on the day of the season's final. Brendon McCullum became the first player to wear the Orange Cap, and Shaun Marsh became the first winner of the award. So far David Warner has won the cap thrice followed by Chris Gayle and Virat Kohli who have won it twice. Kohli scored the most runs in a single edition of the tournament in the 2016 season.
The then IPL chairman and commissioner Lalit Modi said of the initiative, "Cricket is often remembered and recorded as statistics and not by material distinctions. The DLF Indian Premier League will create a distinction for the best performing batsman, which will be cherished and valued by each player through this initiative. The purpose of this initiative is to be innovative, create another unique piece of history that sets the DLF Indian Premier League apart from the crowd, and to reward outstanding achievements by the players."
SeasonPlayerMatchesRunsReference
2008Shaun Marsh 11616
2009Matthew Hayden 12572
2010Sachin Tendulkar 15618
2011Chris Gayle 12608
2012Chris Gayle 15733
2013Michael Hussey 16733
2014Robin Uthappa 16660
2015David Warner 14562
2016Virat Kohli 16973
2017David Warner 14641
2018Kane Williamson 17735
2019David Warner 12692
2020KL Rahul 14670
2021Ruturaj Gaikwad 16635
2022Jos Buttler 17863
2023Shubman Gill 17890
2024Virat Kohli 15741
2025Sai Sudharsan 15759

Purple Cap

The Purple Cap, currently known as the Aramco Purple Cap for sponsorship reasons, is presented to the leading wicket-taker in the IPL. After the introduction of Orange Cap on 25 April 2008, the IPL announced the introduction of the Purple Cap on 13 May 2008. The bowler with most wickets in the tournament during the course of the season would wear the Purple Cap while fielding, with 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 superior economy rate would hold the Purple Cap. So far only Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Dwayne Bravo, and Harshal Patel have won the Purple Cap twice. Dwayne Bravo and Harshal Patel scalped 32 wickets in the 2013 Indian Premier League and 2021 Indian Premier League respectively, the most for any bowlers in a single edition of the tournament but Dwayne Bravo remains ahead of Harshal Patel because of better economy rate of the two as per the IPL rules.
The then IPL chairman and commissioner Lalit Modi said of the initiative, "We have seen over the course of the inaugural season of the League so far that bowlers have just as important a role to play in winning T20 matches as batsmen do."
SeasonPlayerMatchesWicketsReference
2008Sohail Tanvir 1122
2009R. P. Singh 1623
2010Pragyan Ojha 1621
2011Lasith Malinga 1628
2012Morne Morkel 1625
2013Dwayne Bravo 1832
2014Mohit Sharma 1623
2015Dwayne Bravo 1626
2016Bhuvneshwar Kumar 1723
2017Bhuvneshwar Kumar 1426
2018Andrew Tye 1424
2019Imran Tahir 1726
2020Kagiso Rabada 1730
2021Harshal Patel 1532
2022Yuzvendra Chahal 1727
2023Mohammed Shami 1728
2024Harshal Patel 1424
2025Prasidh Krishna 1525

Most sixes

The Maximum Sixes Award, called "Angel One Super Sixes of the Season" to be presented to the batsman who hit the most sixes in a season of the IPL.
SeasonPlayerMatchesSixesReference
2008Sanath Jayasuriya 1431
2009Adam Gilchrist 1629
2010Robin Uthappa 1627
2011Chris Gayle 1244
2012Chris Gayle 1559
2013Chris Gayle 1651
2014Glenn Maxwell 1636
2015Chris Gayle 1438
2016Virat Kohli 1638
2017Glenn Maxwell 1426
2018Rishabh Pant 1437
2019Andre Russell 1452
2020Ishan Kishan 1330
2021KL Rahul 1330
2022Jos Buttler 1645
2023Faf du Plessis 1436
2024Abhishek Sharma 1542
2025Nicholas Pooran 1440

Most fours

The award for the most fours in a season, called the "Rupay On-the-Go 4s of the Season" for sponsorship reasons, was introduced in 2022.
SeasonPlayerMatchesFoursReference
2022Jos Buttler 1683
2023Shubman Gill 1785
2024Travis Head 1464
2025Sai Sudharsan 1588