First Mitchell snatched out Orange Cap, then Nicholas's counter attack…
In IPL 2025, the race for the orange cap has started becoming interesting. Currently, there is a battle to win the Orange Cap between 2 Dhakad players of lucknow Super Giants. In fact, on Tuesday, the match of lucknow Super Giants and kolkata Knight Riders (KKR vs LSG) was played, in which lucknow won by 4 runs. In this match, Nicholas Puran and Mitchell Marsh played half -century innings for lucknow, both of them are currently seated in the first 2 places in the Orange Cap table.
Not allowed to wear orange cap for a second
Nicholas Puran was on top of the Orange Cap table after scoring 201 runs before playing Kolkata-Lucknow match. At the same time, Mitchell Marsh was at the fourth place with 184 runs at that time. Since Marsh came to bat first in the match against kolkata, he had won the Orange Cap as soon as he scored 18 runs. Puran came to bat in the 11th over of LSG's innings and by then Marsh had gone far ahead of Nicholas Puran in the race for Orange Cap scoring 48 runs.
Mitchell Marsh scored 81 runs in the match against KKR, causing his total runs to 265 in the IPL 2025 season. Marsh may have gone to the forefront during the batting, but he did not get an opportunity to wear an orange cap even for a second. This is because Puran scored an unbeaten 87 runs in the match against kolkata, causing him to go 23 runs ahead of Marsh in the race for Orange Cap. Puran has scored 288 runs in 5 matches so far.
Orange cap race
Nicholas Puran is first and Mitchell Marsh seated in the race for the Orange Cap of IPL 2025. suryakumar yadav is the most scoring most runs in the season so far, whose names are 199 runs. Sai sudarshan and Ajinkya Rahane, who have scored 191 and 184 runs respectively, are currently at number four and fifth.
Nicholas Puran (LSG) - 288 runs
Mitchell Marsh (LSG) - 265 runs
Suryakumar Yadav (Mi) - 199 runs
Sai Sudarshan (GT) - 191 runs
Ajinkya Rahane (KKR) - 184 runs
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