IPL 2020: Delhi Capitals pace spearhead Kagiso Rabada takes home the Purple Cap

Even though Delhi Capitals lost in their maiden IPL Final appearance - Losing to Mumbai Indians by 5 wickets, the disgruntled fans of the franchise would draw some solace from Kagiso Rabada's Purple Cap win. Rabada grabbed 30 wickets in IPL 2020.

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Even though Delhi Capitals lost the IPL 2020 Final by 5 wickets at the Dubai International Stadium on Tuesday (November 10), their star pacer Kagiso Rabada emerged from the tournament as the highest wicket-taker - taking home the Purple Cap.

Rabada picked-up an astonishing 30 wickets from 17 games and left the rest of the race far behind. We look at the final top-10 standings for the Purple Cap below.

Player	Team	Matches	Wickets	Economy-rate	Best
Kagiso Rabada	Delhi Capitals	17	30	8.34	4/24
Jasprit Bumrah	Mumbai Indians	15	27	6.73	4/14
Trent Boult	Mumbai Indians	15	25	7.97	4/18
Anrich Nortje	Delhi Capitals	16	22	8.39	3/33
Yuzvendra Chahal	Royal Challengers Bangalore	15	21	7.08	3/18
Rashid Khan	SunRisers Hyderabad	16	20	5.37	3/7
Jofra Archer	Rajasthan Royals	14	20	6.55	3/19
Mohammad Shami	Kings XI Punjab	14	20	8.57	3/15
Varun Chakravarthy	Kolkata Knight Riders	13	17	6.84	5/20
T Natarajan	SunRisers Hyderabad	16	16	8.02	2/24

Prior to the game, Rabada was in a close race with Mumbai’s Jasprit Bumrah. Before the commencement of the final, Rabada had 29 wickets from 16 games while Bumrah was on 27 wickets from 14 games.

In the final, however, Bumrah failed to take a wicket even though he bowled an economical spell of 4-0-28-0 which decided the fate of the coveted Purple Cap.

It must be noted, however, that Bumrah had played two lesser games than Rabada – playing just 14 games before the final as he was rested for one game while Delhi played an extra game after losing their Qualifier 1 against Mumbai. Bumrah even had a better economy rate than Rabada – 6.73 as compared to 8.34.

Rabada was the most potent weapon in Delhi’s armoury and was skipper Shreyas Iyer’s go to bowler whenever a breakthrough was needed. The South African speedster took two four-wicket hauls in this edition- Bumrah being the only other bowler to do so.

Rabada was instrumental in Delhi’s 17-run win in the crucial Qualifier 2 against SunRisers Hyderabad taking 4-29 on the big stage.

Trent Boult, who was third on the list prior to the final, took three wickets in the final and thus ended his capped off his phenomenal tournament with 25 wickets from 15 games at a decent economy rate of 7.97.