WPL 2025: Amelie Kerr Wins Purple Cap After Stellar Campaign – Full List Of Highest Wicket-Takers

Last Updated:March 16, 2025, 00:19 IST

Amelie Kerr finishes her WPL 2025 campaign with the Mumbai Indians as the purple-cap holder after picking up 18 wickets.

Amelie Kerr finishes as the purple cap holder in WPL 2025. (Image: Sportzpics)

Mumbai Indians dominate the wicket-taking charts as the star New Zealand all-rounder Amelia Kerr pipped her teammate Hayley Matthews to win the purple cap at the end of the Women’s Premier League 2025 season with the win over Delhi Capitals by 8 runs in Mumbai on Saturday.

Both Kerr and Matthews were gunning for the race to be the highest wicket-taker. Kerr finished with two massive wickets, while Matthews took one in the big finale as both bowlers took 18 wickets each in the 2025 season. But it was Kerr who took the purple cap, thanks to the lesser number of runs conceded in her bowling.

Matthews, who won the purple cap during the Mumbai Indians’ inaugural title-winning season, narrowly finished at 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 become the third-highest wicket-taker of the tournament. Coming up in fourth is Mumbai Indians’ star English all-rounder who made the jump up thanks to her match-winning bowling display, picking up three wickets for 30 runs in her four overs. She struck early to get rid of Meg Lanning in the second over and followed it up late in the innings with back-to-back blows to get rid of the dangerous Marizanne Kapp and Shikha Pandey.

The West Indies all-rounder was impressive with the ball as she created a new record for the most wickets taken in a single season of the WPL, going past her previous best tally of 16 wickets in 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, but the franchise is unable to make it to the playoffs, thus ending their reign as the title-holders in the process. The youngster 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.

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