Orange Cap changed after three days when a resurgent Chris Gayle and KL Rahul over took the RCB skipper but Kohli took it back later.
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) captain Virat Kohli, who lost his Orange Cap for a few hours, regained it and got back to the top of IPL 2018 run-scorers list on Saturday evening.
Virat Kohli scored 30 runs as Royal Challengers Bangalore notched a convincing six-wicket win over Delhi Daredevils in their IPL 2018 fixture at the M Chinnaswamy stadium in Bengaluru. Kohli now has 231 runs from five matches in IPL 2018.
Earlier on Saturday, Virat Kohli was dethorned off the top of IPL 2018 run-scorers list after three days when a resurgent Chris Gayle and KL Rahul over took the RCB skipper.
Gayle, who has been in phenomenol form this season for KXIP, completed a hat-trick of half-centuries with an unbeaten 62 from 38 balls in the match against KKR. Rahul helped himself to a 60 off only 27 balls.
Gayle rose to 229 runs in just three matches while Rahul now has 213 runs off 5 matches. Delhi Daredevils' Rishabh Pant who played a knock of 85 on Saturday night to climb to third place- sandwiched between two KXIP openers with 223 runs.
AB de Villiers who scored a 90 to guide RCB to win on Saturday entered the list at no. 5 with 212 runs.
|
POS
|
PLAYER
|
Mat
|
Inns
|
NO
|
Runs
|
HS
|
Avg
|
BF
|
SR
|
100
|
50
|
4s
|
6s
|
|
1
|
Virat Kohli
|
5
|
5
|
1
|
231
|
92*
|
57.75
|
167
|
138.32
|
0
|
2
|
21
|
8
|
|
2
|
Chris Gayle
|
3
|
3
|
2
|
229
|
104*
|
229.00
|
134
|
170.89
|
1
|
2
|
13
|
21
|
|
3
|
Rishabh Pant
|
5
|
5
|
0
|
223
|
85
|
44.60
|
126
|
176.98
|
0
|
1
|
26
|
11
|
|
4
|
KL Rahul
|
5
|
5
|
0
|
213
|
60
|
42.60
|
116
|
183.62
|
0
|
2
|
27
|
10
|
|
5
|
AB de Villiers
|
5
|
5
|
1
|
212
|
90*
|
53.00
|
122
|
173.77
|
0
|
2
|
14
|
15
|
|
6
|
Dinesh Karthik
|
6
|
6
|
2
|
194
|
43
|
48.50
|
142
|
136.61
|
0
|
0
|
18
|
5
|
|
7
|
Sanju Samson
|
5
|
5
|
1
|
187
|
92*
|
46.75
|
120
|
155.83
|
0
|
1
|
10
|
12
|
|
8
|
Chris Lynn
|
6
|
6
|
0
|
181
|
74
|
30.16
|
130
|
139.23
|
0
|
1
|
22
|
6
|
|
9
|
Shane Watson
|
4
|
4
|
0
|
175
|
106
|
43.75
|
99
|
176.76
|
1
|
0
|
15
|
10
|
|
10
|
Nitish Rana
|
6
|
6
|
1
|
165
|
59
|
33.00
|
122
|
135.24
|
0
|
1
|
13
|
8
|
The Orange Cap is worn by the leading run-scorer in the IPL at any given moment. The player with the most runs at the end of the tournament is awarded a special prize.
*This list was updated after Match 19 of IPL 2018, played between Royal Challengers and Delhi Daredevils.
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