Vaibhav Sooryavanshi at No. 1 in Orange Cap race
The top man on the Orange Cap table at IPL 2026 changed twice during the course of a high-scoring contest between Rajasthan Royals and Lucknow Super Giants
It was a dramatic night in Jaipur when it comes to the Orange Cap race at IPL 2026, with Mitchell Marsh and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi playing innings to remember in the Rajasthan Royals (RR) vs Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) game. Here's what happened.
Orange Cap leaderboard
Marsh, nowhere near the top of the run-scorers' table a week ago, smashed 96 off 57 balls against RR, after hitting 111 and 90 in two of his three previous innings, to rise to the top of the ladder with 563 runs for the season.
He had reason to be pleased with his effort as it lifted LSG to 220 for 5 in what has been a season of discontent for them, but the high didn't last too long.
And that was because Sooryavanshi chose the night to do the sort of Sooryavanshi things that he hasn't done since April 25, when he smashed 103 in 37 balls against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), also in Jaipur, in a game RR lost. This time, his haul was 93 off 38 balls. And RR won a match they had to win to stay in the playoffs race.
It was one of his slower innings to start with. He was on 25 off 16 balls after eight overs, and was struggling against Mohsin Khan in particular. But the big hits started flowing after that, and he got to his half-century in 23 balls - again, not one of his fastest - and he seemed to pull sixes out of everywhere after that. Two of them came in the ninth over against Akash Singh - he had hit just two before that - and then one against Digvesh Rathi, then two off Prince Yadav, two more off Mayank Yadav, one more off Rathi, taking his tally for the game to ten, before a Mohsin slower delivery got the better of him.
At the end of it, Sooryavanshi was No. 1 on the table with 579 runs. Marsh was second with 563. And then the table-toppers from Monday night: SRH's Heinrich Klaasen with 555 runs, B Sai Sudharsan of Gujarat Titans (GT) with 554, his opening partner Shubman Gill with 552 runs followed, and then the rest.
Purple Cap leaderboard
Prince Yadav, the most successful LSG bowler of the season, went wicketless for the third game in a row, leaving him stuck at 16 wickets, but Jofra Archer did send back Ayush Badoni in the first innings to get his haul for the season up to 18, and with that, the fourth spot on the table.
The top three of Bhuvneshwar Kumar of Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB, 24 wickets), GT's Kagiso Rabada (21 wickets) and Anshul Kamboj of Chennai Super Kings (CSK, 20 wickets) were not disturbed.
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