Kolkata Knight Riders hosted Gujarat Titans at Eden Gardens on Saturday and secured a 29-run win, with the eighth-placed side beating the team sitting second. While the result did not create any major movement in the IPL 2026 Purple Cap standings, it significantly reshaped the Orange Cap leaderboard.
Orange Cap Leaderboard
Despite GT losing, their opening pair, B Sai Sudharsan and Shubman Gill, still made strong contributions while trying to chase KKR’s total of 247.
Sai Sudharsan had retired hurt in the third over of the chase after being hit by a Kartik Tyagi delivery while on 23 off 13 balls. He returned in the 17th over after Gill’s dismissal, when his score was 49-ball 85, and added another 30 runs from 15 deliveries to remain unbeaten on 53 off 28.
That innings lifted his season tally to 554 runs and moved him to the top of the run-scoring chart. It is familiar ground for Sai Sudharsan, who won the Orange Cap in IPL 2025.
Gill, meanwhile, produced his third score of 80-plus this season, which took him to second place with 552 runs.
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Their efforts pushed Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Heinrich Klaasen, the only other batter to have crossed 500 runs this season with 508, down to third position.
The top five was completed by Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s Virat Kohli and Klaasen’s SRH team-mate Abhishek Sharma. Kohli has 484 runs, while Abhishek is close behind on 481.
Further away from the top, and outside the top ten, KKR batter Angkrish Raghuvanshi continued his impressive season with an unbeaten 82 from 44 balls. That knock moved him to 13th place with 422 runs. It was his fifth half-century of the campaign, behind Sai Sudharsan’s six half-centuries, plus one century, and level with four other players.
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Purple Cap Leaderboard
There was little change in the Purple Cap standings. Rashid Khan and Kartik Tyagi, who had both started the match in a group of four bowlers on 16 wickets, stayed there after going wicketless.
Kagiso Rabada also failed to take a wicket and remained in second place.
Rashid and Tyagi, along with Lucknow Super Giants’ Prince Yadav and SRH’s Eshan Malinga, are placed below the top three. Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s Bhuvneshwar Kumar leads with 22 wickets, followed by Rabada on 21 and Chennai Super Kings’ Anshul Kamboj on 19.
