Jun 1, 2026
776 runs and a clean sweep: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi made IPL 2026 his at 15
At 15, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi finished IPL 2026 with the Orange Cap, the MVP award and 776 runs at a strike rate above 237, the most complete individual...
Orange Cap
20 articles tagged with "Orange Cap"
May 23, 2026
Sooryavanshi at Stormont: the case India have to settle before they fly to Belfast
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is 15, on top of the IPL 2026 Orange Cap charts, and one selection call from breaking Sachin Tendulkar’s youngest-India-debutant...
May 22, 2026
Sudharsan 638, Gill 616, Kohli 542: the Orange Cap race walks into the IPL 2026 playoffs
Sai Sudharsan reclaimed the IPL 2026 Orange Cap with 84 off 53 against CSK on Thursday, going 22 clear of Shubman Gill and 96 ahead of Virat Kohli wit...
May 21, 2026
Kumble backs Vaibhav Sooryavanshi to break Chris Gayle’s 59-six IPL record
Anil Kumble has publicly tipped the 15-year-old to overhaul Chris Gayle’s 2012 mark of 59 sixes in a season. Sooryavanshi sits on 53 with at least two...
May 20, 2026
First Indian to 50 sixes in an IPL season: Sooryavanshi back on top of the Orange Cap race
A 93 off 38 in Jaipur pulled Vaibhav Sooryavanshi past Mitchell Marsh on the IPL 2026 Orange Cap leaderboard and into a small list of records nobody h...
May 13, 2026
Sai Sudharsan is the fastest player to 2,000 IPL runs and still the most argued-about opener in the league
Three straight 500-run seasons, the fastest 2,000 IPL runs by innings and a strike-rate debate that refuses to die — the curious case of Gujarat’s Sai...
May 7, 2026
Klaasen takes the Orange Cap as Abhishek and Connolly redraw the IPL 2026 batting race
Heinrich Klaasen’s 69 off 43 against PBKS pushed him past Abhishek Sharma and KL Rahul to the top of the IPL 2026 run charts, while Cooper Connolly’s...
May 2, 2026
From a 14-crore reset to the Orange Cap: KL Rahul’s quiet IPL 2026 takeover
A 75 off 40 in Jaipur on Friday took KL Rahul from outside the top five to the top of the IPL 2026 Orange Cap standings, and Delhi Capitals’ opener ha...
Apr 29, 2026
69.21 per cent: how Indian batters have taken over IPL 2026
After 38 matches of IPL 2026, Indian batters are taking up a bigger share of the runs scored than they ever have in this tournament, and the share tha...
Apr 24, 2026
Sai Sudharsan to 2,000 IPL runs in 47 innings: the Gayle record is gone
A six off Krunal Pandya at the end of the ninth over was all it took for Sai Sudharsan to become the fastest batter to 2,000 IPL runs on Friday, 24 Ap...
Apr 23, 2026
Two centuries in four games: how Sanju Samson has quietly answered every question about his CSK move
Twelve days after fans were asking whether trading Sanju Samson to CSK was a mistake, the Kerala batter has two IPL 2026 hundreds, five in his career,...
Apr 22, 2026
How freeing Vaibhav Sooryavanshi to open has turned him into the powerplay’s most destructive batter
Rajasthan Royals sat Vaibhav Sooryavanshi down as an impact sub to start the season and got criticised for it. Six games in as an opener, the 15-year-...
Apr 21, 2026
Abhishek Sharma’s 135 not out powers SRH to a 47-run win over Delhi Capitals in Hyderabad
Abhishek Sharma’s unbeaten 135 off 68 balls lifted Sunrisers Hyderabad to 242 for 2 at Uppal, and Delhi Capitals never came close in the chase as SRH...
Apr 21, 2026
Sunrisers host Delhi Capitals in Hyderabad as both sides fight for a top-four foothold
Sunrisers Hyderabad welcome Delhi Capitals to the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on Tuesday night with the table so tight that a single result cou...
Apr 20, 2026
Klaasen, Gill, Kohli, Klaasen again: the IPL 2026 Orange Cap has changed hands three times in a week
Heinrich Klaasen has retaken the IPL 2026 Orange Cap with 283 runs after a tournament week in which Virat Kohli briefly led from an Impact Player outi...
Apr 16, 2026
Rajasthan Royals are wasting Vaibhav Sooryavanshi as an impact sub and the teenager knows it
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has been one of IPL 2026’s top run-scorers and the most destructive teenager the tournament has seen, yet Rajasthan Royals keep b...
Apr 16, 2026
Kohli grabs the Orange Cap on his Impact Sub debut and reminds RCB what they have been missing
Virat Kohli came off the bench at Chinnaswamy on April 15, walked in during the powerplay and struck 49 off 34 balls. By the time RCB were done, he ha...
Apr 8, 2026
Rajasthan Royals are running the Orange and Purple cap races at the top of IPL 2026
Three matches in and Rajasthan Royals already have both the Orange and Purple cap leaders on their books, with Yashasvi Jaiswal out in front with the...
Apr 4, 2026
Rohit Sharma leads Orange Cap race for first time in 18-year IPL career
Rohit Sharma sits top of the IPL 2026 run-scoring charts after 113 runs from two matches, holding the Orange Cap for the first time since his debut se...
Mar 19, 2026
Buttler eyes IPL 2026 fresh start at Gujarat Titans after dismal T20 World Cup
Jos Buttler has spoken about using IPL 2026 as a reset after managing just 87 runs at an average of 10.87 across eight matches in the T20 World Cup, w...