Through the early stages of IPL 2026, the Orange and Purple Cap charts have been shifting almost daily. Tuesday night’s match between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders didn’t trigger a wholesale reshuffle, but it did produce one major move worth noting.
Quick facts: cap tables after CSK vs KKR
- Anshul Kamboj (CSK) rose to 10 wickets for the season after taking 2 for 32 versus KKR.
- Kamboj now sits level at the top with Prasidh Krishna (Gujarat Titans), who has a better economy rate and has kept the cap.
- Rajasthan Royals’ Ravi Bishnoi is third with nine wickets; Jofra Archer is next with seven.
- Three bowlers are on six wickets: Prince Yadav (LSG), Jacob Duffy (RCB), and Vaibhav Arora (KKR).
- Heinrich Klaasen (224) and Ishan Kishan (213) remain first and second on the Orange Cap standings (SRH).
- Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (RR) continues at third with 200 runs.
- Sanju Samson (CSK) has climbed to fifth, highlighted by a 115 not out—the only century this season so far.
Purple Cap leaderboard
Anshul Kamboj has been relentless, not missing wickets in any appearance so far. In fact, only once in his five matches has he failed to register at least two wickets, which underlines why his tally continues to rise.
When the CSK medium pacer returned figures of 2 for 32 against KKR, it pushed him to ten wickets for the season. That put him joint-top alongside Prasidh Krishna of Gujarat Titans, even though Krishna’s economy rate is better, and he has maintained the cap advantage so far.
Ravi Bishnoi from Rajasthan Royals sits at No. 3 with nine wickets. Jofra Archer follows with seven, and the next cluster is tightly packed: Prince Yadav of Lucknow Super Giants, Jacob Duffy of Royal Challengers Bengaluru, and KKR’s Vaibhav Arora all have six wickets.
Arora’s count arrived after he took one wicket against CSK, adding to the growing group chasing the top spots on the Purple Cap table.
Orange Cap leaderboard
The leading run-scorers remain unchanged, with Heinrich Klaasen (224) and Ishan Kishan (213) of Sunrisers Hyderabad still occupying the top two positions. RR’s Vaibhav Sooryavanshi continues at No. 3 with 200 runs, and so far he is one of only three batters to have reached or passed the 200-run mark.
Rajat Patidar of RCB is next at No. 4 with 195 runs. The fifth spot has changed, with Sanju Samson climbing quickly after a slow start to the campaign.
Samson began with scores of 6, 7 and 9, but his momentum has since surged. He has made 115 not out—credited as the only century of the season so far—and followed that with 48, taking him firmly up the table.
