Orange Cap IPL 2022: Sunrisers Hyderabad face Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on Friday in IPL 2022. In the match, Kolkata’s Nitish Rana and Andra Russell scored 54 and 49 runs respectively. At the same time, Rahul Tripathi scored a brilliant 71 for Hyderabad and Aiden Markram scored an unbeaten 68 to give victory to his team. After the end of the 25th match of the season, there has been no change in the top-5 in the race for the Orange Cap. Rajasthan Royals’ Jos Buttler continues to top the list of most run-scorers this season with 272 runs in five matches. Butler snatched the Orange Cap from Gujarat Titans captain Hardik Pandya in the last match.
Hardik is at number two in the Orange Cap race with 228 runs in five matches. Hardik played an unbeaten innings of 87 runs in 52 balls against Rajasthan with the help of 8 fours and 4 sixes. Shivam Dubey of Chennai Super Kings is third with 207 runs in five matches and Shubman Gill of Gujarat Titans remains at number four with 200 runs in the same number of matches. Apart from him, Shimran Hetmyer of Rajasthan remains in the top-5 with 197 runs in five matches.
Russell, who scored 49 runs against Hyderabad, has now entered the top-10 as well. Russell is at number nine with 179 runs in six matches. Shikhar Dhawan of Punjab Kings is at number six, Robin Uthappa of Chennai is at number seven and Quinty de Kock of Lucknow Supergiants is at number eight. At the same time, Ishan Kishan of Mumbai Indians is at number ten with 178 runs in five matches.