Orange Cap named after Virat Kohli

IPL 2026 Orange Cap : RCB’s star batsman Virat Kohli has captured the Orange Cap of IPL 2026. Virat played a stormy half-century for Royal Challengers Bangalore against Gujarat Titans in the 34th match of the Indian Premier League 2026 at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium and has once again won the Orange Cap. Along with this, he has captured the Orange Cap leaving behind Abhishek Sharma, Heinrich Klaasen and Shubman Gill.

Virat Kohli is crowned with orange cap

Chasing the target of 206 runs in this match, Virat played an innings of 81 runs in 44 balls. During this innings he hit 8 fours and 4 sixes. Virat’s strike rate was 184.09. With this inning of 81 runs, Virat has again won the Orange Cap. Thanks to this innings, RCB defeated GT by 5 wickets.

You can put your faith in him when its a run chase 🙌

Virat Kohli reaches another #TATAIPL fifty 👏

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Virat Kohli made changes in the Orange Cap list

Thanks to this innings, Virat has completely reshuffled the top 5 list of Orange Cap. As soon as Virat Kohli reached number 1. Now Abhishek Sharma has reached number 2, Heinrich Klaasen has reached number 3, Shubman Gill has reached number 4 and Sanju Samson has reached number 5. In this match, Shubman Gill also played an inning of 32 runs in 24 balls.

Top 3 players of Orange Cap list

Now Virat Kohli has scored 228 runs with 3 half-centuries in 7 innings of 7 matches in IPL 2026. Behind him, Abhishek Sharma is present with 226 runs in 7 matches with 1 century and 2 half-centuries. Abhishek is just 2 runs behind Kohli. Klaasen is in third place with 320 runs. Who is 8 runs behind Kohli.

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— Royal Challengers Bengaluru (@RCBTweets) April 24, 2026

Top-5 batsmen who scored most runs in IPL 2026