IPL 2020: Kagiso Rabada GotPurple Cap, KL Rahul Back on Orange Cap

The most awaited league has been stared and with that, the race to Purple and Orange cap also started. 

Purple Cap On Rabada

Kagiso Rabada, the Delhi Capitals’ pacer and the most destructive baller for Delhi Capitals’ returned the best figures of IPL 2020 till date. Rabada in the last encounter against Royal Challengers Banglore took a 4 wicket haul giving 24 runs in 4 overs. 

This brilliant spell clears his path to grab the Purple Cap, and also created a good range from his competitors, who are trying there best to place their heads under this cap. Rabada has 12 wickets from 5 games, under his name in the ongoing Indian Premier League at UAE. 

Who Can Be Next? 

Rabada after the amazing performance got a lead of four wickets from the spinner Yuzvendra Chahal from RCB, Trent Boult from MI and Mohammed Shami from KXIP. They all have 8 wickets from 5 games under their name. 

IPL 2020: Kagiso Rabada GotPurple Cap, KL Rahul Back on Orange Cap
IPL 2020: Kagiso Rabada GotPurple Cap, KL Rahul Back on Orange Cap

Orange Cap On KL Rahul

Kings XI Punjab skipper and wicketkeeper-batsman KL Rahul, who displaced his amazing and excellent opening partnership with Mayank Agarwal on Sunday.

This leads him to score the highest runs in a total 19 matches of the 13th edition of the IPL at UAE. This great performance by the KL prepared his head for the orange cap. 

Who Might be Next?

It’s true that players make records and players break them in every edition of IPL. That’s the same scenario with the orange and purple caps. We can easily figure out that there’s a tough fight going on in both the departments of the game. 

Where Rahul is sitting right at the top with a total of 302 runs in 5 matches to this name. Chennai Super Kings’ top order and consistent batsman Faf du Plessis is second to him with a total 282 runs, followed by KXIP opener Mayank Agarwal.

Mayank was holding the orange cap till Saturday, and he is now just 10 runs behind Faf with 272 runs.

Conclusion

Hope the race to these caps will go on and we would see some incredible performances to this race. It’s the IPL season we won’t think any match is boring, there’s always something new in every match, with unpredictable outcomes. Liked our report? Just stay tuned, for all cricket updates on and off-field.

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