Sooryavanshi smashes his way to the top of IPL 2026 Orange Cap table
Jofra Archer, meanwhile, picked up three wickets for the second game running, and is only two behind Purple Cap leaders Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Kagiso Rabada
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Published: May 28, 2026, 1:48 AM (1 hr ago)
Two Rajasthan Royals (RR) rocked the Orange Cap and Purple Cap tables at IPL 2026 at the Eliminator against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), blasting their team into Qualifier 2.
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. On Wednesday, he slammed 12 sixes to break Chris Gayle’s record for most sixes in an IPL season, and was well on his way to scoring the fastest IPL century, also in Gayle’s name (off 30 balls), before falling for 97 off the 29th ball he had faced.
You’d think that he will get to that record too one of these days, but he has already climbed to the top of the run-getters’ table at IPL 2026 (not for the first time) with 680 runs, 28 clear of second-placed B Sai Sudharsan of Gujarat Titans (GT).
Both of them, as well as third-placed Shubman Gill of GT, have at least one more game left to play in the tournament, as does Virat Kohli, the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) star who is in sixth place with 600 runs.
Dhruv Jurel, meanwhile, scored 50 off 21 balls against SRH, an innings that might have been the main attraction on another night, to get to 508 runs for the season and the 11th position on the table.
The SRH big three of Heinrich Klaasen (624 runs), Ishan Kishan (602 runs) and Abhishek Sharma (563 runs) finished the season at No. 3, No. 5 and No. 8, respectively.
At various points during the season, Jofra Archer has looked a pale shadow of the bowler we know he could be. When he hasn’t, though, he has looked stunning. Like in the last two RR games, both of which they had to win to continue in the tournament. Against Mumbai Indians (MI), he returned 3 for 17. And against SRH, 3 for 58. Expensive, yes, but when the three wickets are of the aforementioned big three, all inside the powerplay, who can complain?
Archer is now on 24 wickets for the season. Ahead of him, though, are two bowlers who can add to their tallies: RCB’s Bhuvneshwar Kumar and GT’s Kagiso Rabada, who have 26 wickets each.
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