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Amelie Kerr finishes her WPL 2025 campaign with the Mumbai Indians because the purple-cap holder after picking up 18 wickets.
Amelie Kerr finishes because the purple cap holder in WPL 2025. (Image: Sportzpics)
Mumbai Indians dominate the wicket-taking charts because the star Latest Zealand all-rounder Amelia Kerr pipped her teammate Hayley Matthews to win the purple cap at the top of the Women’s Premier League 2025 season with the win over Delhi Capitals by 8 runs in Mumbai on Saturday.
Each Kerr and Matthews were gunning for the race to be the very best wicket-taker. Kerr finished with two massive wickets, while Matthews took one in the large finale as each bowlers took 18 wickets each within the 2025 season. But it surely was Kerr who took the purple cap, due to the lesser variety of runs conceded in her bowling.
Matthews, who won the purple cap throughout the Mumbai Indians’ inaugural title-winning season, narrowly finished on the second spot despite having a season’s best tally.
Delhi Capitals’ Jess Jonassen continued to have a stellar campaign with the ball as she finished with 13 wickets to develop into the third-highest wicket-taker of the tournament. Coming up in fourth is Mumbai Indians’ star English all-rounder who made the jump up due to her match-winning bowling display, picking up three wickets for 30 runs in her 4 overs. She struck early to do away with Meg Lanning within the second over and followed it up late within the innings with back-to-back blows to do away with the harmful Marizanne Kapp and Shikha Pandey.
The West Indies all-rounder was impressive with the ball as she created a brand new record for probably the most wickets taken in a single season of the WPL, going past her previous best tally of 16 wickets within the 2023 season.
| Highest Wicket-Takers In WPL 2025 | ||||||
| Rank | Player Name | Team | Matches | Wickets | Economy | Avg |
| 1 | Ameila Kerr | MI | 10 | 18 | 7.93 | 15.94 |
| 2 | Hayley Matthews | MI | 10 | 18 | 8.1 | 17.05 |
| 3 | Jess Jonassen | DC | 8 | 13 | 8.19 | 18.07 |
| 4 | Nat Sciver-Brunt | MI | 10 | 12 | 8 | 22.5 |
| 5 | Georgia Wareham | RCB | 8 | 12 | 8.79 | 21.25 |
| 6 | Kashvee Gautam | GG | 9 | 11 | 6.45 | 18.18 |
| 7 | Shikha Pandey | DC | 9 | 11 | 7.08 | 21.9 |
| 8 | Renuka Singh Thakur | RCB | 7 | 10 | 7.88 | 21.3 |
| 9 | Deandra Dottin | GG | 8 | 9 | 8.42 | 27.77 |
| 10 | Sophie Ecclestone | UPW | 8 | 9 | 6.87 | 24.44 |
Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s Georgia Wareham finishes as their highest wicket-taker with 12 wickets in 8 games, however the franchise is unable to make it to the playoffs, thus ending their reign because the title-holders in the method. The teen Kashvee Gautam of the Gujarat Giants is the franchise’s best bowler this season with 11 wickets to her name, while Sophie Ecclestone with 9 wickets is UP Warriorz’s most prolific bowler.
