IPL 2024 orange cap: Ruturaj Gaikwad, purple cap: T Natarajan

Ruturaj Gaikwad, Chennai Super Kings' captain, is the leading run-scorer of the 2024 IPL. His 62 off 48 balls in the defeat to Punjab Kings on Wednesday took him to 509 runs from ten matches. Virat Kohli, in second place, is the only other batter to have scored 500 so far this season.

At No. 3 is Gujarat Titans' Sai Sudharsan, with 418 runs, followed by Rajasthan Royals' Riyan Parag, whose 77 off 49 balls against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Thursday took him to 409 runs.

In fifth place, three runs behind Parag, is Lucknow Super Giants captain KL Rahul. He is followed by Rishabh Pant, the Delhi Capitals captain, with 398 from 11 matches.

Then comes Phil Salt of Kolkata Knight Riders , who is one run behind Pant. And one run behind Salt is Sunrisers' Travis Head, on 396.

Among the top 20 run-makers, three Sunrisers batters lead the way on strike rate - Abhishek Sharma with 208.60, Head with 194.11, and Heinrich Klaasen on 189.32. Jake Fraser-McGurk, outside the top 20, has the extraordinary strike rate of 233.33; he has made 259 runs from six innings this season.

Jos Buttler is the leading century-maker in this year's IPL, with two hundreds. Marcus Stoinis' 124 not out against CSK is the highest individual score of the season. Jonny Bairstow, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma, Will Jacks, Narine, Gaikwad, Kohli and Head are the other batters to have scored hundreds this IPL. Gaikwad, Kohli, Parag, Salt and Samson have made four fifties each.

Here's the full list of the highest run-scorers in the 2024 IPL.

Mumbai Indians fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah has gone back up to No. 1 on the list of top wicket-takers in the 2024 IPL following his 3 for 18 against KKR on Friday. He now has 17 wickets from 11 games at the economy rate of 6.25.

T Natarajan, who took 2 for 35 in the one-run win over Royals on Thursday is at No. 2, with 15 wickets from eight matches.

CSK's Mustafizur Rahman and Punjab Kings seamer Harshal Patel both have 14 wickets apiece; Mustafizur has the better economy rate of the two - 9.26.

In fifth place with 13 wickets from only six games is CSK fast bowler Matheesha Pathirana. Five other bowlers have taken 13 wickets each - Mukesh Kumar of DC, Gerald Coetzee of MI, Arshdeep Singh of PBKS, Varun Chakravarthy of KKR, and Yuzvendra Chahal of Rajasthan Royals, who this season became the first bowler in the history of the IPL to take 200 wickets.

Five bowlers are on 12 wickets apiece: Kuldeep Yadav and Khaleel Ahmed of DC, Sam Curran of Punjab, Pat Cummins of SRH, and Sunil Narine of KKR, who took 2 for 22 in the match against MI on Friday.

Only three bowlers have taken five-fors so far this season - Bumrah, Yash Thakur of LSG, and Sandeep Sharma of Royals. Nine bowlers - Mitchell Starc of KKR, who took 4 for 33 in his side's win over Mumbai; Pathirana, Kuldeep, Natarajan, Mustafizur, Arshdeep, Coetzee, Tushar Deshpande of CSK, and R Sai Kishore - have taken four in an innings.

Chahal, Kuldeep, Narine and Varun Chakravarthy of KKR are the only spinners among the top 20 most successful bowlers in the 2024 IPL. Narine has the second-best economy rate after Bumrah among the top 20 wicket-takers, 66.76, and Pathirana the third best, with 7.68.