IPL 2020 Orange Cap Holder: KL Rahul Retains Top Spot in Run-scoring Charts

IPL 2020 Orange Cap holder: Kings XI Punjab batsman KL Rahul (313 runs) retained the top spot in the run-scoring charts after the IPL 2020 match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kings XI Punjab on Thursday.

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England wicketkeeper batsman Jonny Bairstow shone with the bat as he smashed a 97-run knock before ace leg-spinner Rashid Khan snared three wickets in an overall impressive bowling display to guide Sunrisers Hyderabad to a comfortable 69-run win against Kings XI Punjab in IPL 2020 on Thursday.

Bairstow and captain David Warner (52) took the opposition bowlers to the cleaners with a 160-run opening stand as SRH scored an imposing 201 for six after opting to bat, even though KXIP made a brilliant comeback by taking six wickets in the final five overs.

ORANGE CAP HOLDER/MOST RUNS IN IPL 2020

POS	PLAYER	TEAM	MATCHES	RUNS
1	KL Rahul	KXIP	6	313
2	Faf Du Plessis	CSK	6	299
3	Mayank Agarwal	KXIP	6	281
4	Jonny Bairstow	SRH	6	241
5	David Warner	SRH	6	227
6	Rohit Sharma	MI	6	211
7	Nicholas Pooran	KXIP	6	196
8	Shane Watson	CSK	6	185
9	Shreyas Iyer	DC	5	181
10	Suryakumar Yadav	MI	6	180
11	Prithvi Shaw	DC	5	179
12	Devdutt Padikkal	RCB	5	178
13	Rishabh Pant	DC	5	171
14	Sanju Samson	RR	5	171
15	Shubman Gill	KKR	5	163
16	Kieron Pollard	MI	6	163
17	Ishan Kishan	MI	4	158
18	AB De Villiers	RCB	5	155
19	Manish Pandey	SRH	6	148
20	Eoin Morgan	KKR	5	143
21	Nitish Rana	KKR	5	139
22	Quinton De Kock	MI	6	138
23	Hardik Pandya	MI	6	135
24	Virat Kohli	RCB	5	133
25	Steven Smith	RR	5	133
26	Shikhar Dhawan	DC	5	127
27	Marcus Stoinis	DC	5	123
28	Aaron Finch	RCB	5	122
29	Rahul Tripathi	KKR	2	117
30	Jos Buttler	RR	4	117
31	Ambati Rayudu	CSK	4	109
32	Rahul Tewatia	RR	5	106
33	MS Dhoni	CSK	6	102
34	Ravindra Jadeja	CSK	6	94
35	Jofra Archer	RR	5	86
36	Tom Curran	RR	5	83
37	Kane Williamson	SRH	4	73
38	Priyam Garg	SRH	6	71
39	Sam Curran	CSK	6	68
40	Pat Cummins	KKR	5	67
41	Saurabh Tiwary	MI	2	63
42	Abhishek Sharma	SRH	6	63
43	Mahipal Lomror	RR	2	58
44	Kedar Jadhav	CSK	6	58
45	Shivam Dube	RCB	5	57
46	Andre Russell	KKR	5	50
47	Dinesh Karthik	KKR	5	49
48	Abdul Samad	SRH	4	48
49	Glenn Maxwell	KXIP	6	48
50	Washington Sundar	RCB	5	47
51	Shimron Hetmyer	DC	5	46
52	Sunil Narine	KKR	5	44
53	Krishnappa Gowtham	KXIP	2	42
54	Krunal Pandya	MI	6	36
55	Robin Uthappa	RR	4	33
56	Mandeep Singh	KXIP	2	33
57	Sarfaraz Khan	KXIP	5	33
58	Murali Vijay	CSK	3	32
59	Wriddhiman Saha	SRH	1	30
60	Riyan Parag	RR	4	23
61	Navdeep Saini	RCB	5	18
62	Karun Nair	KXIP	4	16
63	Kagiso Rabada	DC	5	15
64	Axar Patel	DC	4	11
65	Moeen Ali	RCB	1	11
66	James Pattinson	MI	6	11
67	Prabhsimran Singh	KXIP	1	11
68	Kamlesh Nagarkoti	KKR	4	11
69	Mohammad Nabi	SRH	1	11
70	Shivam Mavi	KKR	5	10
71	Ankit Rajpoot	RR	3	9
72	Rashid Khan	SRH	6	9
73	Jaydev Unadkat	RR	4	9
74	Sandeep Sharma	SRH	3	9
75	Ravi Bishnoi	KXIP	6	7
76	James Neesham	KXIP	3	7
77	Yashasvi Jaiswal	RR	2	6
78	Shreyas Gopal	RR	5	6
79	Anrich Nortje	DC	5	6
80	Chris Jordan	KXIP	2	5
81	Mohammed Siraj	RCB	1	5
82	Ruturaj Gaikwad	CSK	2	5
83	Jasprit Bumrah	MI	6	5
84	Ravichandran Ashwin	DC	3	4
85	T Natarajan	SRH	6	3
86	Mohammed Shami	KXIP	6	2
87	Rahul Chahar	MI	6	2
88	Isuru Udana	RCB	3	1
89	Nikhil Naik	KKR	1	1
90	Mujeeb Ur Rahman	KXIP	1	1
91	Yuzvendra Chahal	RCB	5	1
92	Josh Philippe	RCB	2	1
93	Varun Chakravarthy	KKR	4	1
94	Dale Steyn	RCB	2	1
95	Kuldeep Yadav	KKR	3	1

Orange Cap: Orange cap is presented annually in the Indian Premier League to the highest run scorer. The batsman with most runs in the tournament during the course of the season would wear the Orange Cap while fielding, with the overall leading run-scorer at the conclusion of the tournament winning the actual Orange Cap award on the day of the season's final. David Warner and Chris Gayle remain the only players to have won it twice.

The England wicketkeeper batsman hit seven fours and six sixes during his 55-ball knock, while Warner consumed 40 balls for his 52 to set up SRH's third win from six matches. KXIP made amends of their woeful death overs bowling by conceding just 41 runs in the last five overs and taking six wickets in the process with leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi (3/29) triggering the collapse but that could not stop SRH from crossing the 200-run mark.

Chasing a stiff target of 202, KXIP were all out for 132 in 16.5 overs to slump to their fifth defeat -- and fourth on the trot -- in six matches to remain at the bottom of the points table.

Rashid Khan was the most impressive SRH bowler as he returned with figures of 3/12 from his four overs. Only Nicholas Pooran (77 off 37 balls; 5 fours and 7 sixes) gave a fight for KXIP with his maiden half century and the season's fastest fifty -- off just 17 balls. He hit six fours -- three of them on the trot -- to take 28 runs off a hapless Abdul Samad.

KXIP made a disastrous start to their run chase as they lost two wickets inside five overs. In-form Mayank Agarwal (9) was run out in a horrible mix-up with his captain KL Rahul (11) in the second over itself, while Prabhsimran Singh looked promising for a while but got out for 11.

Rahul played second fiddle to his partners, looking to anchor the innings but he failed in doing that as he was out in the eighth over, hitting straight to the safe hands of Kane Williamson in the deep. Glenn Maxwell's struggle continued as he was run out for seven, courtesy a brilliant direct throw from Priyam Garg.

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Earlier, KXIP bowlers did not have a clue how to break the partnership of Bairstow and Warner till the 15th over. At that stage, SRH were 160 for no loss. Bishnoi then removed both Bairstow and Warner in the space of three balls in the 16th over before Arshdeep Singh (2/33) dismissed Manish Pandey for 1 in the next over to trigger a brilliant turnaround. Williamson remained not out on 20 off 10 balls.

Bairstow was dropped on 19 in the fifth over by KXIP skipper Rahul off the bowling of Mohammed Shami and he made them pay for the mistake. He was clearly the dominant partner of the opening duo, reaching his third fifty of the season in 28 balls in the 10th over at the end of which SRH were 100 for no loss. Warner reached his third fifty of the tournament in the 14th over but got out in the first ball of the 16th over when he miscued a slog sweep to Glenn Maxwell at long-on off Bishnoi.

Three balls later, Bairstow departed after Rahul opted to review the field umpire's decision and the third umpire ruled the England wicketkeeper batsman out LBW.

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