IPL 2025 Orange Cap and Purple Cap: Varun, Arora joint-third among bowlers
Varun Chakravarthy and Vaibhav Arora join the logjam at third place among bowlers
ESPNcricinfo staff
04-Apr-2025
Varun Chakravarthy picked up 3 for 22 against Sunrisers Hyderabad • BCCI
Here's our daily look at the top-three run-scorers and wicket-takers in IPL 2025 after match 15, between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH).
Lucknow Super Giants' (LSG) Nicholas Pooran continues to be the top run-scorer with 189 runs at an average of 63.00 and a strike rate of 219.76. He scored 44 against Punjab Kings (PBKS) following returns of 75 from 30 balls against Delhi Capitals (DC) and 70 from 26 against SRH earlier.
Gujarat Titans' (GT) B Sai Sudharsan is in second position after his 49 off 36 balls against Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB). In the earlier two games, Sudharsan had scores of 74 and 63. His overall tally - 186 - is just three short of Pooran's.
Next on the Orange Cap list is another GT batter: Jos Buttler. Batting at No. 3 this IPL season, Buttler scored a match-winning 73 not out off 39 balls on Wednesday night to steer GT's chase. In all, he has 166 runs at a strike rate of 172.91.
Noor Ahmad continues to wear the Purple Cap in IPL 2025. Turning out for Chennai Super Kings (CSK), who also have R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja in their starting line-up, Noor has been by far the most successful, his left-arm wristspin bringing him 4 for 18, 3 for 36 and 2 for 28 so far. That's nine wickets, five more wickets than Ashwin and Jadeja combined.
Mitchell Starc is just one wicket behind Noor, with eight from just two games for DC. He was expensive in his first game, against LSG, conceding 42 runs for his three wickets, but against SRH, he had his career-best T20 returns - 5 for 35.
There's a six-way tie for the third spot. Varun Chakravarthy and Vaibhav Arora picked up three wickets each for KKR against SRH, taking their tally for the tournament to six. They have joined four others for third place: GT's R Sai Kishore, RCB's Josh Hazlewood, LSG's Shardul Thakur and CSK's Khaleel Ahmed.