Orange Cap race became interesting after Abhishek Sharma’s stormy century, Kohli-Rahul backward

IPL 2025 Orange Purple Cap Updated List: Sunrisers Hyderabad’s opening batsman Abhishek Sharma scored a brilliant century in the match against Punjab Kings on Saturday. In the 27th match of IPL 2025, Abhishek Sharma played an important role in Hyderabad’s victory by playing an explosive batting innings of 141 runs. Batting first, Punjab Kings set a target of 246 runs, which Sunrisers Hyderabad achieved with eight wickets in 18.3 overs. Abhishek Sharma has secured his place among the top 15 players in the orange cap race on the basis of his explosive innings.

Virat Kohli and KL behind Rahul

Abhishek Sharma did not perform anything special in this season before this match, but after playing a brilliant innings of 141 runs against Punjab, he has reached 12th in the race of the highest run batsmen in IPL 2025. Abhishek is now ahead of senior players like Virat Kohli and KL Rahul in this race.

At the same time, Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer, who played an explosive innings of 82 runs in the same match, has managed to make his place in the top-5. Iyer has now scored 250 runs in five matches.

The Orange Cap is currently with Nicholas Puran of Lucknow Super Giants, who has scored the most 349 runs. Apart from this, Sai Sudarshan of Gujarat Titans is the second batsman to cross the 300 -run mark.

Purple hat

Now talking about the purple cap, Noor of Chennai Super Kings is at the top with 12 wickets this season. However, Indian bowlers are constantly challenging him. Shardul Thakur is second in this list with 11 wickets. At the same time, Pradeesh Krishna, R Sai Kishore and Mohammad Siraj are in Top-5 in terms of taking the most wickets in IPL 2025.