IPL 2020 Orange Cap Holder: KXIP's KL Rahul Continues to Lead the Way for Batsmen

IPL 2020 Orange Cap Holder: KXIP’s KL Rahul Continues to Lead the Way for Batsmen - IPL 2020 Orange Cap Holder: Kings XI Punjab skipper KL Rahul continues to top the run-scoring charts after match number 40 in Dubai where Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Rajasthan Royals by 8 wickets on Thursday and kept their hopes of a top 4 finish alive. KL Rahul has 540 runs from 10 matches and he leads second-placed Shikhar Dhawan by 75 runs, who became the first player in the history of IPL to score back-to-back centuries. KL Rahul’s teammate Mayank Agarwal occupies the third place with 398 runs, while Faf du Plessis and Virat Kohli complete the top 5 list, occupying the fourth and the fifth place respectively. (IPL 2020 | IPL SCHEDULE | IPL POINTS TABLE) 

Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Rajasthan Royals by eight wickets in their Indian Premier League (IPL) match on Thursday. Sent into bat, Rajasthan Royals scored 154 for six in the allotted 20 overs. In reply, SRH chased down the target with 11 balls overs to spare at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. Manish Pandey top-scored for the winners with an unbeaten 83 off 47 balls while Jason Holder was the most impressive bowler with excellent figures of 3/33 in four overs.

Earlier, Holder starred with the ball in his first game of the ongoing IPL as SRH restricted RR to 154/6 wickets in 20 overs.

POS	PLAYER	TEAM	MATCHES	RUNS
1	KL Rahul	KXIP	10	540
2	Shikhar Dhawan	DC	10	465
3	Mayank Agarwal	KXIP	10	398
4	Faf Du Plessis	CSK	10	375
5	Virat Kohli	RCB	10	365
6	Shreyas Iyer	DC	10	335
7	David Warner	SRH	10	335
8	Jonny Bairstow	SRH	10	326
9	Quinton De Kock	MI	9	322
10	Devdutt Padikkal	RCB	10	321
11	Shubman Gill	KKR	10	312
12	Nicholas Pooran	KXIP	10	295
13	Manish Pandey	SRH	10	295
14	AB De Villiers	RCB	10	285
15	Shane Watson	CSK	10	285
16	Eoin Morgan	KKR	10	278
17	Sanju Samson	RR	11	272
18	Jos Buttler	RR	10	271
19	Steven Smith	RR	11	265
20	Rohit Sharma	MI	9	260
21	Ambati Rayudu	CSK	8	250
22	Suryakumar Yadav	MI	9	243
23	Marcus Stoinis	DC	10	226
24	Rahul Tewatia	RR	11	224
25	Aaron Finch	RCB	10	221
26	Prithvi Shaw	DC	10	209
27	Kieron Pollard	MI	9	208
28	Ravindra Jadeja	CSK	10	194
29	Ishan Kishan	MI	7	193
30	Rishabh Pant	DC	7	190
31	Nitish Rana	KKR	10	184
32	Kane Williamson	SRH	7	181
33	Rahul Tripathi	KKR	7	168
34	Hardik Pandya	MI	9	164
35	MS Dhoni	CSK	10	164
36	Robin Uthappa	RR	9	147
37	Dinesh Karthik	KKR	10	145
38	Pat Cummins	KKR	10	130
39	Sam Curran	CSK	10	121
40	Ben Stokes	RR	5	110
41	Jofra Archer	RR	11	107
42	Chris Gayle	KXIP	3	106
43	Priyam Garg	SRH	10	106
44	Shivam Dube	RCB	8	102
45	Shimron Hetmyer	DC	7	101
46	Andre Russell	KKR	9	92
47	Glenn Maxwell	KXIP	10	90
48	Riyan Parag	RR	9	86
49	Tom Curran	RR	5	83
50	Krunal Pandya	MI	9	82
51	Abdul Samad	SRH	6	71
52	Vijay Shankar	SRH	5	71
53	Washington Sundar	RCB	10	70
54	Saurabh Tiwary	MI	2	63
55	Abhishek Sharma	SRH	7	63
56	Kedar Jadhav	CSK	8	62
57	Mahipal Lomror	RR	3	59
58	Axar Patel	DC	9	56
59	Sunil Narine	KKR	6	44
60	Krishnappa Gowtham	KXIP	2	42
61	Yashasvi Jaiswal	RR	3	40
62	Gurkeerat Singh Mann	RCB	5	40
63	Deepak Hooda	KXIP	3	38
64	Narayan Jagadeesan	CSK	1	33
65	Sarfaraz Khan	KXIP	5	33
66	Mandeep Singh	KXIP	3	33
67	Alex Carey	DC	3	32
68	Murali Vijay	CSK	3	32
69	Wriddhiman Saha	SRH	1	30
70	Ajinkya Rahane	DC	3	25
71	Chris Morris	RCB	5	25
72	Rashid Khan	SRH	10	24
73	Nathan Coulter-Nile	MI	2	24
74	Lockie Ferguson	KKR	2	19
75	Tom Banton	KKR	2	18
76	Chris Jordan	KXIP	5	18
77	Navdeep Saini	RCB	10	18
78	James Neesham	KXIP	4	17
79	Kagiso Rabada	DC	10	17
80	Karun Nair	KXIP	4	16
81	Harshal Patel	DC	4	16
82	Kamlesh Nagarkoti	KKR	6	15
83	Prabhsimran Singh	KXIP	2	15
84	Shreyas Gopal	RR	11	14
85	Kuldeep Yadav	KKR	5	13
86	Moeen Ali	RCB	1	11
87	James Pattinson	MI	7	11
88	Isuru Udana	RCB	8	11
89	Mohammad Nabi	SRH	1	11
90	Shivam Mavi	KKR	7	10
91	Sandeep Sharma	SRH	7	10
92	Ankit Rajpoot	RR	5	9
93	Jaydev Unadkat	RR	7	9
94	Varun Chakravarthy	KKR	9	8
95	Ravi Bishnoi	KXIP	10	7
96	Dwayne Bravo	CSK	6	7
97	Deepak Chahar	CSK	10	7
98	Andrew Tye	RR	1	6
99	Anrich Nortje	DC	9	6
100	Mohammed Siraj	RCB	4	5

Holder, who was brought in as replacement for the injured Kane Williamson, took the important wickets of Sanju Samson (36), RR captain Steve Smith (19) and the dangerous Riyan Parag (20) and ended the innings with figures of 3/33.

All three of the wickets that the West Indies Test captain took came at crucial points, especially that of Parag who had two fours and a six and was looking capable of propelling RR beyond 160 at the start of the 19th over, in which Holder got him.

Rashid Khan, meanwhile, dismissed the struggling Ben Stokes, who laboured to 30 off 32 balls while Vijay Shankar took the all-imporant wicket of Jos Buttler.

(With agency inputs)

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