{"id":599338,"date":"2026-04-11T04:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/599338\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T04:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:42:08","slug":"ipl-2026-sooryavanshi-snatches-orange-cap-from-jaiswal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/599338\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026 – Sooryavanshi snatches Orange Cap from Jaiswal"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s all looking rather pink and blue at the top of the Orange Cap table at IPL 2026<\/a> after Rajasthan Royals<\/a> (RR) knocked off their fourth win in a row<\/a>, beating Royal Challengers Bengaluru<\/a> (RCB) with some ease on Friday night in Guwahati.<\/p>\n

Scores of 52, 31, 39 and 78 means the new Orange Cap leader is Vaibhav Sooryavanshi<\/a> with 200 runs from four innings, scored at a combined strike rate of 266.66. The latest innings, against the might of Josh Hazlewood and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, among others, was a spectacle of sorts, with eight fours and seven sixes, and made RR’s chase of 202 look like a stroll in the park.<\/p>\n

But outstanding as Sooryavanshi has been, his opening partner Yashasvi Jaiswal<\/a> has been as good. The failure on the night – he scored 13 in eight balls – meant Jaiswal slipped to No. 2 on the table, but not by much: he is just 17 runs behind with 183 runs.<\/p>\n

And making it an RR sweep of the top-three spots on the table is Dhruv Jurel<\/a>, who added to the 75 he had scored against Mumbai Indians (MI) with a stunning 81 not out off 43 balls.<\/p>\n

Sameer Rizvi<\/a> of Delhi Capitals (DC) with 160 runs and Angkrish Raghuvanshi<\/a> of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) with 155 runs round off the top five.<\/p>\n

It’s RR at the top of the Purple Cap table too, with Ravi Bishnoi<\/a> adding two wickets to his tally to get to nine wickets, three ahead of the next best on the list, Prasidh Krishna<\/a> of Gujarat Titans (GT). Bishnoi so far has returns of 1 for 16, 4 for 41, 2 for 25 and 2 for 32, and has been leading RR’s attack after a disappointing IPL 2025.<\/p>\n

Behind Krishna, with five wickets, are a pack of nine bowlers: Vijaykumar Vyshak<\/a> of Punjab Kings (PBKS), Krishna’s team-mate Rashid Khan<\/a>, Lungi Ngidi<\/a> of Delhi Capitals (DC), Prince Yadav<\/a> of Lucknow Super Giants (LSG), RCB’s Jacob Duffy<\/a>, Vaibhav Arora<\/a> of KKR, Anshul Kamboj<\/a> of Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and two other RR bowlers – Jofra Archer<\/a> and Nandre Burger<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other key numbers<\/p>\n

Highest batting strike rates<\/a><\/p>\n

Most sixes<\/a><\/p>\n

Best economy rates<\/a><\/p>\n

Best bowling strike rates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s all looking rather pink and blue at the top of the Orange Cap table at IPL 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-599338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}