Kohli returns to the top of the IPL 2026 Orange Cap table
Shubman Gill, Rajat Patidar and B Sai Sudharsan also rose on the highest run-getters’ table at IPL 2026 after the RCB vs GT game on Friday night
ESPNcricinfo staff
Published: Apr 25, 2026, 12:53 AM (1 hr ago)
The Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) vs Gujarat Titans (GT) game on Friday night has changed things around nicely in the IPL 2026 Orange Cap table. Here’s a look at both that and the Purple Cap table after RCB’s five-wicket win.
Virat Kohli was in familiar terrain, opening the batting in a big, but not massive, chase, and at the end of it, he is in familiar terrain on the Orange Cap table.
RCB were chasing 206 for a win, Kohli opened the innings, batted till the 14th over, didn’t finish the job but scored 81 in 44 balls to set the chase up, and won the Player-of-the-Match award as well as got to the top of the run-scorers’ table. He now has 328 runs from seven innings, five runs more than No. 2 Abhishek Sharma of Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH).
The top two are followed by SRH’s Heinrich Klaasen (320 runs), and behind him is Shubman Gill of GT. Gill scored 32 in 24 balls against RCB to get to 297 runs for the season, which took him above Sanju Samson of Chennai Super Kings (CSK), relegating him to fifth place.
Also on the rise after the RCB-GT game were Rajat Patidar, the RCB captain, who scored just 8 against GT – his second low score in a row – but pulled level with SRH’s Ishan Kishan at 238 runs (Patidar is eight and Kishan nine because of the difference in strike rate), and GT opener B Sai Sudharsan, who scored a 58-ball 100 – the fifth century of the season overall – to reach the tenth spot.
Only eight wickets fell in the RCB-GT game, and none of them went to GT’s Prasidh Krishna, keeping him stuck at joint-third, with SRH’s Eshan Malinga, with 12 wickets, behind Anshul Kamboj of CSK and Prince Yadav of Lucknow Super Giants (LSG).
Bhuvneshwar Kumar, however, did get the wicket of Jos Buttler, and that took his tally for the season up to 11 wickets, the same as the Rajasthan Royals (RR) duo of Jofra Archer and Ravi Bishnoi, placing the three of them behind the top four.
