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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.