Rajasthan Royals’ highest wicket-takers - the top bowlers

Jofra Archeris the highest wicket-taker for the Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League.

Archer reached the milestone after dismissing Mayank Yadav for his 67th wicket during an IPL 2026 match against the Lunknow Super Giants at the Ekana Stadium to surpass Yuzvendra Chahal, who held the record earlier with 66 scalps in 46 matches. Archer took 54 matches to make the record his own.

Chahal had eclipsed medium-pacer Siddarth Trivedi, who had 65 IPL wickets from 76 matches, in the IPL 2024 season.

Starting IPL 2024 with 48 wickets, Chahal reached the 50-wicket mark in RR's second game against Delhi Capitals, to become the fifth Royals player to reach the milestone. is the latest entry into the list, picking up his 50th scalp against the Punjab Kings in IPL 2025. He is also the highest wicket-taker among the current RR players in the IPL.

Former Rajasthan Royals’ captain and legendary leg-spinner Shane Warne was the first to take 50 wickets for the team back in 2011, in his fourth and final year with the Royals in the IPL. He was followed by Siddarth Trivedi, who reached the 50-wicket mark in the subsequent year in 2012.

Shane Watson and James Faulkner have also reached the 50-wicket mark in the Royals jersey, having reached their milestones in 2013 and 2015, respectively.

Shane Watson, with 67 wickets - including six from the 2013 Champions League T20 - held the record for the most wickets for RR across all competitions before Archer surpassed him. All of Archer's wickets for RR have come in the IPL.

There have been two Purple Cap winners for Rajasthan Royals in the history of IPL. A Purple Cap is awarded to the player with the most wickets at the end of an IPL season.

Sohail Tanvir was the first winner for the Royals in the inaugural season in 2008. The left-arm pacer picked up 22 wickets that year to guide the Royals to be the first champions of the IPL.

Yuzvendra Chahal was the highest wicket-taker in IPL 2022 with 27 wickets from 17 matches and won the Purple Cap as the Royals reached their second finals after 2008.

James Faulkner is the highest wicket-taker for Rajasthan Royals in a single season of the IPL. The left-armer had a dream start to his IPL career in 2013 as he picked up 28 wickets from 16 matches.

But Faulkner did not win the Purple Cap that year as he finished second in the overall list.

Faulkner is also the only Royals bowler to have two five-wicket hauls against his name. Astonishingly, both came in the same season (IPL 2013) and against the same opponent, Sunrisers Hyderabad, in a gap of 20 days.

Jofra Archer has finished as Rajasthan Royals' top wicket-taker three times while four players have ended the season as RR's top wicket-taker twice, with Warne doing it in consecutive seasons in 2010 and 2011.

Though Trivedi and Chris Morris have finished as the Royals’ highest wicket-getters in two seasons, it was Chahal who matched Warne’s exploits as he finished at the top of the Royals’ bowling chart consecutively in 2022 and 2023.

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