{"id":631224,"date":"2026-04-26T03:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T03:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/631224\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T03:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T03:13:08","slug":"ipl-2026-abhishek-sharma-vaibhav-sooryavanshi-kl-rahul-take-top-three-spots-in-orange-cap-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/631224\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026 Abhishek Sharma Vaibhav Sooryavanshi KL Rahul take top three spots in Orange Cap race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the sun was setting in Delhi, it was DC opener <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/kl-rahul-422108\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KL Rahul<\/a> who took the No. 1 spot with his unbeaten 152, the highest score by an Indian in T20 cricket history. With 357 runs in seven innings, Rahul moved to the top spot, but stayed there for less than two hours. Over in Jaipur, teenage sensation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/vaibhav-sooryavanshi-1408688\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vaibhav Sooryavanshi<\/a> struck a 37-ball 103 to also reach 357 runs &#8211; the same tally as Rahul &#8211; and grabbed the Orange Cap by virtue of a higher strike-rate. An hour later, SRH opener <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/abhishek-sharma-1070183\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Abhishek Sharma<\/a> had moved atop the batting table with a 29-ball 57.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the sun was setting in Delhi, it was DC opener KL Rahul who took the No. 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,203020,740,12063,43,44,145550,85],"class_list":["post-631224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bulletin","tag-cricket","tag-daily","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-package","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631224","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=631224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}