The leading T20 franchise tournament in the country and probably even in the world, the Indian Premier League (IPL) has grown leaps and bounds and in this gentleman’s game, the batsmen have always been the bigger stars. And since we’re covering everything related to cricket and IPL records, Read Scoops is bringing to you a special list of all the past and current Orange Cap winners in IPL history!
What is the IPL Orange Cap?
For the uninitiated, the IPL Orange Cap is a special award given to the player with the most individual runs in a single tournament, presented at the end of every IPL season. During the tournament, the physical cap is distributed to batsmen as and when they take over someone else on the most runs top spot, with the player ending at the top being the eventual winner of the Orange Cap award.
When you look at our list of all Orange Cap winners in IPL history, you’ll see that the overseas players have dominated this race. The first ever winner of this award in IPL 2008 was Australia’s Shaun Marsh while another Australian won in IPL 2009 in Matthew Hayden. Over time, we saw the overseas players dominating even further, with five of the first six winners being overseas players.
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Breaking records everywhere in the world, Chris Gayle won this award in IPL 2011 and IPL 2012 and remains the only player in IPL history to win this award in consecutive seasons (All stats here updated 27th April 2024), while there’s only one batter to have won the award on three separate occasions in another Australian batsman, winning it in IPL 2015, IPL 2017 and IPL 2019 – David Warner.
Complete IPL Orange Cap winners list
| Year | Orange Cap winner | Team | Runs (Matches) | High score |
| 2008 | Shaun Marsh  | Kings XI Punjab | 616 (11) | 115 |
| 2009 | Matthew Hayden | Chennai Super Kings | 572 (12) | 89 |
| 2010 | Sachin Tendulkar  | Mumbai Indians | 618 (15) | 89* |
| 2011 | Chris Gayle  | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 608 (12) | 107 |
| 2012 | Chris Gayle (2) | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 733 (15) | 128* |
| 2013 | Michael Hussey | Chennai Super Kings | 733 (17) | 95 |
| 2014 | Robin Uthappa | Kolkata Knight Riders | 660 (16) | 83* |
| 2015 | David Warner | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 562 (14) | 91 |
| 2016 | Virat Kohli | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 973 (16) | 113 |
| 2017 | David Warner (2) | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 641 (14) | 126 |
| 2018 | Kane Williamson  | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 735 (17) | 84 |
| 2019 | David Warner (3) | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 692 (12) | 100* |
| 2020 | KL Rahul | Punjab Kings | 670 (14) | 132* |
| 2021 | Ruturaj Gaikwad | Chennai Super Kings | 635 (16) | 101* |
| 2022 | Jos Buttler (ENG) | Rajasthan Royals | 863 (17) | 116 |
| 2023 | Shubman Gill | Gujarat Titans | 890 (17) | 129 |
| 2024 | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
Among the IPL franchises, only one team has gone on to win the title on four separate occasions and that’s Sunrisers Hyderabad, with David Warner bringing them the award three times from their four, along with Kane Williamson winning it once for SRH. After them, players from Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore franchises have topped the Orange Cap leaderboard three times each.
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Since it’s an individual award, let’s talk about individual numbers as well. Only twice in the history of the league has the eventual Orange Cap holder scored less than 600 runs in a season and still won the award. The lowest among them was in IPL 2015 when David Warner won it by scoring only 562 runs. And on the flip side, Virat Kohli was the top scorer in IPL 2016 in a record-breaking season with the bat where he got 973 runs.
We honestly don’t think that the 1,000-run barrier may be broken anytime soon but with the IPL expanding and ten teams playing as compared to eight earlier, batsmen will be playing more number of games each IPL season; it means we’ll see heavy scoring seasons in the future. Jos Buttler won the 2022 Orange Cap IPL award, becoming the first Rajasthan Royals batter to enter this all IPL Orange Cap list.
Orange cap holder in IPL 2023 – Jos Buttler
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At the time of last updating this, RCB former captain Virat Kohli was leading the Orange Cap list for IPL 2024 with 430 runs in 9 games so far this season. For more updates on who is going to win the Orange Cap in IPL 2024 and other updates from the Indian Premier League tournament, make sure you always stay tuned to ReadScoops.com…
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