Kohli snatches the IPL 2025 Orange Cap back from Sai Sudharsan after RCB vs CSK
Josh Hazlewood sat the RCB vs CSK game out, and missed a chance to earn the Purple Cap back from Prasidh Krishna
ESPNcricinfo staff
04-May-2025 • 4 hrs ago
The Orange Cap continues to change heads with pretty much every other game at IPL 2025. Here's how things stand on that list, as well as the Purple Cap list, after Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) beat Chennai Super Kings (CSK) on Saturday night.
It didn't take Virat Kohli long. After B Sai Sudharsan, the Gujarat Titans (GT) opener, won it back from Kohli on Friday, Kohli snatched it right back when he scored 62 in 33 balls for RCB against CSK at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. Not much between them, though, Kohli is on 505 runs from 11 innings, while Sai Sudharsan is one run behind, from one fewer innings.
The line-up below them remains unchanged: Suryakumar Yadav (Mumbai Indians, 475 runs), Jos Buttler (GT, 470 runs), Shubman Gill (GT, 465 runs), Yashasvi Jaiswal (Rajasthan Royals, 439 runs) and Nicholas Pooran (Lucknow Super Giants, 404 runs).
Now, while Kohli is the top run-getter, RCB's next most prolific run-scorer is Devdutt Padikkal with just 247 runs, down at No. 26.
Josh Hazlewood didn't play the game against CSK, and that means he remains one wicket behind table-topper Prasidh Krishna of GT. Prasidh has 19 wickets from ten games, while Hazlewood has 18 from ten.
Khaleel Ahmed's wicketless - and very expensive - outing meant he remained at 14 wickets for the season, but his team-mate Noor Ahmad got back on level terms with MI's Trent Boult at 16 wickets to be joint-third. Krunal Pandya picked up one wicket for RCB against CSK, and that took him to 14, the same as Khaleel as well as GT's Mohammed Siraj and Delhi Capitals' Mitchell Starc.
You can also take a look at what ESPNcricinfo MVP table looks like at this stage.
Here are some other IPL 2025 tables.