Prince Yadav rises to third place on IPL 2026 Purple Cap table
Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Virat Kohli had the chance to move up their respective tables, but both returned blobs against LSG
There was no major change at the top of the Orange Cap table in IPL 2026 after Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) beat Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) by nine runs on Thursday night, but there's action on the Purple Cap table, which we will start with.
Purple Cap leaderboard
Prince Yadav. Virat Kohli, for one, will remember the name after the LSG quick's peach to send the RCB hero back for a second-ball duck. That was Prince's first wicket on the night, and he finished with three of them, taking his haul for the season up to 16.
That's the same as Kagiso Rabada of Gujarat Titans (GT) and Eshan Malinga of Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), but Prince is ahead of them on economy rate: he has gone at 8.08 so far, while Rabada (9.23) and Malinga (9.44) have been more expensive.
The three of them are just behind RCB's Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Anshul Kamboj of Chennai Super Kings (CSK), who both have 17. Bhuvneshwar could, of course, have gone clear at the top but went wicketless against LSG.
Orange Cap leaderboard
Like Bhuvneshwar, Kohli could have moved up the run-scorers' table but couldn't add to his 379 runs for the season, leaving him stuck at No. 9. Mitchell Marsh, though, rose sharply to No. 12 after scoring 111 in 56 balls against RCB, which took him to 367 runs for the season. Not near the top, but well above where he was.
The table is led by the SRH duo of Heinrich Klaasen (494 runs) and Abhishek Sharma (475), followed by KL Rahul of Delhi Capitals (DC, 445), SRH's Ishan Kishan (409) and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi of Rajasthan Royals (RR, 404).
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