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New Delhi: The excitement of IPL 2024 is driving fans crazy. After every match, the fans keep their eyes fixed on which batsman is wearing the orange cap. Orange cap is given to the person who scores the most runs in IPL. This cap is awarded to the batsman who has scored the most runs at the end of the tournament.
At present, if we talk about the 17th season of IPL, 8 matches have been played till Wednesday. In this, Sunrisers Hyderabad gave a historic performance and defeated Mumbai Indians by 31 runs. Sunrisers Hyderabad made the highest score (277/3) in IPL history. Credit for this should be given to the stormy innings of Travis Head (62), Abhishek Sharma (63) and Heinrich Klaasen (80*).
What can we say about Klaassen?
South African wicketkeeper-batsman Heinrich Klaasen is in excellent form at the moment. For the Orange Army, Klaasen scored an unbeaten 80 off just 34 balls with the help of four fours and seven sixes against the team. His strike rate was around 235. Apart from this, Abhishek Sharma and Tilak Verma (64) of Mumbai Indians have made the race for the Orange Cap exciting by playing good innings.
How is Kohli's condition?
Heinrich Klaasen has scored 143 runs in 2 matches and has overtaken Virat Kohli to reach the top position. Virat Kohli has slipped to second place. Sunrisers Hyderabad's Abhishek Sharma and Mumbai Indians' Tilak Verma have reached the third and fourth positions respectively. Punjab Kings' Sam Curran, who scored his first half-century of the season, looks to join the top-5 list.
Here comes a new twist. Now Shivam Dubey has reached the third position after scoring 85 runs in 2 matches, while Rachin Ravindra has reached the fourth position after scoring 83 runs in 2 matches. Rajasthan Royals captain Sanju Samson played an inning of 82 runs in the first match and has joined the top-5.
Orange Cap (Orange Cap IPL 2024)
Heinrich Klaasen (SRH) – 143 runs in two matches
Virat Kohli (RCB) – 98 runs in two matches
Abhishek Sharma (SRH) – 95 runs in two matches
Tilak Verma (MI) – 89 runs in two matches
Sam Curran (PBKS) – 86 runs in two matches