The Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) vs Gujarat Titans (GT) game on Friday has changed things on the IPL 2026 Orange Cap table. Here’s a look at both that and the Purple Cap table after RCB’s five-wicket win.
Virat Kohli was in familiar terrain, opening the batting in a 200+ chase and at the end of it, he is in familiar terrain on the Orange Cap table.
In RCB’s chase of 206, Kohli batted till the 14th over and scored 81 in 44 balls to set the chase up to move to No. 1 on the table. He also won the Player-of-the-Match award. His 328 runs from seven innings is just five runs more than No. 2 Abhishek Sharma of Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH).
The top two are followed by SRH’s Heinrich Klaasen (320 runs), and behind him is Shubman Gill of GT. Gill scored 32 in 24 balls against RCB to get to 297 runs for the season, which took him above Sanju Samson of Chennai Super Kings (CSK), relegating him to fifth place.
Also on the rise was Rajat Patidar, the RCB captain, who scored just 8 against GT – his second low score in a row – but pulled level with SRH’s Ishan Kishan at 238 runs (Patidar is eight and Kishan nine because of the difference in strike rate), and GT opener B Sai Sudharsan, who scored a 58-ball 100 – the fifth century of the season overall – to reach the tenth spot.
Only eight wickets fell in the RCB-GT game, and none of them went to GT’s Prasidh Krishna, keeping him stuck at joint-third, with SRH’s Eshan Malinga, with 12 wickets, behind Anshul Kamboj of CSK and Prince Yadav of Lucknow Super Giants (LSG).
Bhuvneshwar Kumar‘s wicket of Jos Buttler took the seamer’s tally to 11 wickets, the same as the Rajasthan Royals (RR) duo of Jofra Archer and Ravi Bishnoi, placing the trio behind the top four.
