Ahmedabad: Just before the World Cup Shubman Gill(Shubman Gill) was cut from the Indian T20 squad. His name went from the vice-captain to the cancellation book. That may be why he has entered this year’s IPL (IPL 2026) with a bit more enthusiasm, at least his batting and stats seem so. Friday, April 17 Gill his former team Kolkata Knight Riders(GT vs KKR) Durant not only played an innings, reached the top of the ‘Orange Cap’ list.

Gill has always played well against KKR. His bat speaks when he sees his former team. Shubman Gill’s innings of 90 runs came from the bat of Gujarat Titans against KKR last year. Gujarat Titans beat KKR once again with his bat on Friday. The man of the match is also the captain of the Titans. Gill played an innings of 86 off 50 balls against the Knights. His innings consisted of eight fours and four sixes.

Gill’s innings made him the highest run-scorer of the current IPL and gave him the orange cap for the time being. Although he missed a match due to injury, he has already scored 251 runs in four matches. The top order batsman has scored three fifties, strike rate 154.93, batting average 62.75. This is the current Gill’s statistics IPLIt is enough to explain the form.

Gill dropped Virat Kohli behind. Virat scored 228 runs in five matches at an average of 57 and a strike rate of 158.33. Just behind him is Heinrich Klaasen who has 224 runs. Classen’s teammate and interim captain of Sunrisers Hyderabad Ishan Kishan is fifth on the list with 213 runs, and KohliRCB captain Rajat Patidar is currently fourth with 222 runs. Angakrish Raghuvanshi is the only KKR batsman in the top ten in this Orange Cap list. He has scored 190 runs in six matches at an average of 38 and a strike rate of 157.02, currently ranked tenth in the list. KKR Captain Ajinkya Rahane is currently at number 15 in the list with 152 runs in six matches.





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