Virat Kohli has become the Orange Cap holder by scoring 228 runs in IPL. He is facing tough competition from SRH’s Heinrich Klaasen (224) and RCB’s Rajat Patidar (222). In the race for Purple Cap, Anshul Kamboj and Prasidh Krishna are at the top with 10 wickets each.
Bengaluru: The 19th season of the Indian Premier League is progressing with great excitement. Reigning champions Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) have made it to the top of the points table by defeating Lucknow Super Giants on their home ground. After this match, RCB’s run-machine Virat Kohli has become the Orange Cap holder by scoring the most runs in this season. But now Kohli is facing tough competition from a player from his own team.
Yes, Virat Kohli has been awarded the orange cap given to the player scoring the most runs after the match against Lucknow Super Giants at Chinnaswamy Stadium on 15th April. In this match against Lucknow, Kohli scored 49 runs on 34 balls. Thanks to this innings he reached the top. While chasing the target of 147 runs, Kohli scored the most runs for RCB. After 5 matches this season, Kohli’s total has reached 228 runs.
In this list, Heinrich Klaasen of Sunrisers Hyderabad is at second place with 224 runs. At the same time, after Wednesday’s performance, Rajat Patidar has reached the third position. Patidar has scored 222 runs in 5 matches. This means that he is just 6 runs behind Virat Kohli. In such a situation, if Rajat Patidar’s bat continues like this in the coming matches, then it will not be a surprise if the Orange Cap is snatched from Kohli and goes into his account.
Apart from these, Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Ishan Kishan (213) and Rajasthan Royals’ 15-year-old young talent Vaibhav Suryavanshi (200) are the other players to score more than 200 runs this season. After these, Chennai Super Kings wicketkeeper Sanju Samson is at sixth place with 185 runs.
Virat becomes ‘Impact Player’ for the first time in IPL
Virat Kohli, who was batting only after getting injured in the match against Mumbai Indians, entered the field as an ‘impact player’ against Lucknow. This was the first time in his IPL career that he played as an impact player. Kohli’s name was not in the initial team of RCB, which won the toss and bowled first. But when the team came out to chase the target, he came to open and made the highest individual score for his team.
No change in Purple Cap race
There has been no major change in the list of bowlers taking the most wickets i.e. the race for the Purple Cap. Anshul Kamboj of Chennai Super Kings and Prasidh Krishna of Gujarat Titans are jointly at the first place with 10 wickets each. Ravi Bishnoi of Rajasthan Royals and Prince Yadav of Lucknow Super Giants are right behind him with 9 wickets each. Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Krunal Pandya have taken 7 wickets each in 5 matches.