Virat Kohli Drops Out of Top 5 in Orange Cap Race, Sudharsan’s Lead Under Threat

IPL 2025 Orange Cap List: The 64th match of IPL season 18 was played on Thursday between Gujarat Titans and Lucknow Super Giants. Mitchell Marsh played a brilliant innings of 117 runs in 64 balls, with the help of which Lucknow was able to score a huge score of 235 runs. In response, Gujarat could only score 202 runs and LSG won the match by 33 runs. After this match, Virat Kohli is out of the list of top 5 players in the Orange Cap race.

In the Orange Cap race, the top 2 batsmen are from Gujarat Titans. Sai Sudarshan is currently the Orange Cap holder while captain Shubman Gill is just 2 runs behind him. Sudarshan scored 21 runs against Lucknow on Thursday. Gill played an innings of 35 runs, he missed the Orange Cap.

These 3 batsmen went ahead of Virat Kohli

Mitchell Marsh scored 117 runs in 64 balls, in this innings he hit 8 sixes and 10 fours. This season has been good for Marsh, although his team (Lucknow) is out of the race for IPL playoffs. Marsh has now come to fourth place in the list of highest run-scoring batsmen. Nicholas Pooran, who scored 56 runs in 27 balls, has also come ahead of Virat Kohli.

Gujarat Titans wicketkeeper batsman Jos Buttler has come ahead of Kohli to sixth place by scoring 33 runs, while Kohli was earlier at fifth place but after the match on Thursday, he has slipped to 8th place in the list. Kohli has scored 505 runs in 11 matches.

Top 10 players in the race for IPL 2025 Orange Cap

Sai Sudarshan (GT): 638 runs in 13 matches

Shubman Gill (GT): 636 runs in 13 matches

Suryakumar Yadav (MI): 583 runs in 13 matches

Mitchell Marsh (LSG): 560 runs in 12 matches

Yashasvi Jaiswal (RR): 559 runs in 14 matches

Jos Buttler (GT): 533 runs in 13 matches

Nicholas Pooran (LSG): 511 runs in 13 matches

Virat Kohli (RCB): 505 runs in 11 matches

KL Rahul (DC): 504 runs in 12 matches

Prabhsimran Singh (PBKS): 458 runs in 12 matches

RCB vs SRH match will be held in Lucknow today

RCB vs Hyderabad match will be held today at Ekana Cricket Stadium, in this Virat Kohli will once again have a chance to move ahead in the list There will be an opportunity, a good innings is required from him. After this, RCB's last match in the league stage will be against Lucknow on 27 May. RCB can remain in the top 2 by winning both the matches, it has already confirmed its place in the playoffs.