IPL 2021 Orange Cap List | Orange Cap in IPL 2021

The highest wicket-taker in the Indian Premier League (IPL) single edition is awarded the Orange Cap. Here you will get IPL 2021 Orange Cap List. This table shows the top run-scorer of the IPL 2021 season with their stats. The top-ranked on this list is given an orange cap in IPL 2021 after the end of the tournament.

Ruturaj Gaikwad has won the Orange Cap of IPL 2021 by scoring 635 runs in 16 matches. Another experienced batsman from CSK, South African Faf du Plessis, finished the tournament with 633 runs in 16 matches from second place in the IPL 2021 Orange Cap List.

IPL 2021 Orange Cap List:

POS	PLAYER	MATCH	RUNS	HS	AVG	SR	100	50	4s	6s
1	Ruturaj Gaikwad	16	635	101*	45.35	136.26	1	4	64	23
2	Faf du Plessis	16	633	95*	45.21	138.20	0	6	60	23
3	KL Rahul	13	626	98*	62.60	138.80	0	6	48	30
4	Shikhar Dhawan	16	587	92	39.13	124.62	0	3	63	16
5	Glenn Maxwell	15	513	78	42.75	144.10	0	6	48	21
6	Sanju Samson	14	484	119	40.33	136.72	1	2	45	17
7	Prithvi Shaw	15	479	82	31.93	159.13	0	4	56	18
8	Shubman Gill	17	478	57	28.11	118.90	0	3	50	12
9	Mayank Agarwal	12	441	99*	40.09	140.44	0	4	42	18
10	Rishabh Pant	16	419	58*	34.91	128.52	0	3	42	10
11	Devdutt Padikkal	14	411	101*	31.61	125.30	1	1	44	14
12	Virat Kohli	15	405	72*	28.92	119.46	0	3	43	9
13	Rahul Tripathi	17	397	74*	28.35	140.28	0	2	41	11
14	Nitish Rana	17	383	80	29.46	121.97	0	2	34	17
15	Rohit Sharma	13	381	63	29.30	127.42	0	1	33	14
16	Venkatesh Iyer	10	370	67	41.11	128.47	0	4	37	14
17	Moeen Ali	15	357	58	25.50	137.30	0	1	31	19
18	Suryakumar Yadav	14	317	82	22.64	143.43	0	2	40	10
19	AB de Villiers	15	313	76*	31.30	148.34	0	2	23	16
20	Quinton de Kock	11	297	70*	29.70	116.01	0	2	29	7
21	Manish Pandey	8	292	69*	48.66	123.72	0	3	21	10
22	Kane Williamson	10	266	66*	44.33	113.19	0	2	29	2
23	Ambati Rayudu	16	257	72*	28.55	151.17	0	2	16	17
24	Jos Buttler	7	254	124	36.28	153.01	1	0	27	13
25	Yashasvi Jaiswal	10	249	50	24.90	148.21	0	1	32	10
26	Jonny Bairstow	7	248	63*	41.33	141.71	0	2	20	15
27	Kieron Pollard	14	245	87*	30.62	148.48	0	1	16	16
28	Shimron Hetmyer	14	242	53*	34.57	168.05	0	1	19	12
29	Ishan Kishan	10	241	84	26.77	133.88	0	2	21	10
30	Shivam Dube	9	230	64*	28.75	119.17	0	1	18	10

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What is Orange Cap in IPL 2021:

Orange Cap is awarded to top run-scorer in the Indian Premier League (IPL) single edition. As the IPL group stage progresses, the award goes from one batsman to another. At the end of each match, the orange cap is transferred to the person at the top of the table. At the end of the tournament, the batsman who scores the most runs and stays at the top of the highest run-scorer table is awarded the Orange Cap.

Rules for winning IPL Orange Cap:

1. The Orange Cap was awarded to the highest run-getter of the IPL season.
2. The batsman who has scored the most runs during the tournament can wear the orange cap while on the field.
3. In situations where two or more batsmen make the same run, the batsman with the highest strike rate is given the orange cap.
4. In a situation where the opposing batsman of that match crosses the current holder of the Orange Cap, the previous holder is allowed to wear the cap until the end of that particular innings.

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IPL Orange Cap History:

2021 IPL is the 14th edition of IPL. The IPL first started in 2008. Australia’s Shaun Marsh was the first player to win the award. Shaun Marsh was the highest run-scorer in the opening season of the Indian Premier League. He scored 616 runs in 11 matches with a strike rate of 139.68.

In every IPL edition since 2008, one batsman has won the Orange Cap who scored the highest run in every IPL edition.

Sachin Tendulkar won the first Orange Cup as an Indian in 2010. In 2010 he played 15 matches and scored 618 runs with a strike rate of 132.61 and he was the leading run-scorer in the 2010 IPL.

India and RCB captain Virat Kohli holds the record for most runs in an IPL season in the history of IPL. In 2016, he played 16 IPL matches and scored 973 runs. This is still the highest run of any IPL season by a single batsman.

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David Warner holds the record for most Orange Cap wins. He has won the Orange Cap 3 times out of 14 IPL editions.

KL Rahul was the Orange Cap winner in 2020. He played 14 matches and scored 670 runs with a strike rate of 129.34.

IPL 2020 Orange Cap Holder List:

RANK	PLAYER	TEAM	MATCH	RUNS	HS	AVG.	SR	100	50
1	KL Rahul	KXIP	14	670	132*	55.83	129.34	1	5
2	Shikhar Dhawan	DC	17	618	106*	44.14	144.73	2	4
3	David Warner	SRH	16	548	85*	39.14	134.64	0	4
4	Shreyas Iyer	DC	17	519	88*	34.60	123.27	0	3
5	Ishan Kishan	MI	14	516	99	57.33	145.76	0	4
6	Quinton de Kock	MI	16	503	78*	35.92	140.50	0	4
7	Suryakumar Yadav	MI	16	480	79*	40.00	145.01	0	4
8	Devdutt Padikkal	RCB	15	473	74	31.53	124.80	0	5
9	Virat Kohli	RCB	15	466	90*	42.36	121.35	0	3
10	AB de Villiers	RCB	15	454	73*	45.40	158.74	0	5
11	Faf du Plessis	CSK	13	449	87*	40.81	140.75	0	4
12	Shubman Gill	KKR	14	440	70*	33.84	117.96	0	3
13	Manish Pandey	SRH	16	425	83*	32.69	127.62	0	3
14	Mayank Agarwal	KIXP	11	424	106	38.54	156.45	1	2
15	Eoin Morgan	KKR	14	418	68*	41.80	138.41	0	1
16	Sanju Samson	RR	14	375	85	28.84	158.89	0	3
17	Ambati Rayudu	CSK	12	359	71	39.88	127.30	0	1
18	Nicholas Pooran	KXIP	14	353	77	35.30	169.71	0	2
19	Nitish Rana	KKR	14	352	87	25.14	138.58	0	3
20	Marcus Stoinis	DC	17	352	65	25.14	148.52	0	3

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