Sanjeev Kumar
khelja|15-05-2026
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Orange Cap and Purple Cap Holder List in IPL 2026: The league stage of IPL 2026 is slowly moving towards its final stage. A total of 58 matches have been played in the tournament so far and the race for the playoffs has become tight. The position of some teams has become stronger, while some have dropped out. But apart from these, the ongoing competition to become the number-1 batsman and bowler of IPL 2026 is also no less exciting. There are ups and downs in the race for Orange Cap and Purple Cap with almost every match.
Now something similar can happen in the 59th match also, where two players of Chennai Super Kings (CSK) have a golden opportunity.The picture is like this after 58 matches
In the 19th season of IPL, Mumbai Indians and Punjab Kings were face to face on Thursday 14 May. Players like Shreyas Iyer, Prabhsimran Singh, Tilak Verma, Ryan Rickleton, Arshdeep Singh, Shardul Thakur were included in this match, who are in the race of players scoring runs and taking wickets this season. More than 400 runs were scored in this match but despite this neither of the two teams orange cap Or could not make any changes at the top of the Purple Cap list.
In this way, even after 58 matches, Sunrisers Hyderabad batsman Heinrich Klaasen is at the first place in the list of most runs, who has 508 runs in 12 innings. Gujarat's Sai Sudarshan (501) is at second place and Bangalore (RCB) star Virat Kohli (484) is at third place. similarly purple cap list Still at number one, RCB's veteran fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar is at the top with 22 wickets. Gujarat's Kagiso Rabada (21) is at second place and CSK's Anshul Kamboj (19) is at third place.
Will the picture change from LSG vs CSK match?
The players of Mumbai and Punjab were not able to do anything in their matches which would have enabled them to move ahead. But this change can be seen in the match between Chennai and Lucknow Super Giants on Friday 15th May. Talking about batting, Sanju Samson, the most successful batsman of Chennai this season, can get the first place in the race for Orange Cap. Samson has 430 runs in 11 innings so far and is at number 11. If they score 80-90 runs then they will go ahead.
If Anshul takes 4 wickets in the Purple Cap race, then he can become the number-1 bowler.
As far as Lucknow is concerned, its players are currently lagging behind on both the fronts. Mitchell Marsh has scored the maximum of 377 runs for the team. Prince Yadav, who proved to be the most effective bowler this season, is in fourth place with 16 wickets. In this, only Prince is seen giving some competition.
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