New Delhi: Delhi Capitals opener Kuala Lumpur Rahul He and his team will be disappointed with their performance against the Chennai Super Kings at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Tuesday as they suffered an eight-wicket defeat at home. Rahul only contributed 12 off 13 balls for the home team, but those runs were enough for him to regain the top spot in the IPL 2026 Orange Cap.Rahul overtakes Sunrisers Hyderabad Abhishek Sharma Wearing the orange hat again. He now has 445 points in 10 games with an average of 49.44 and a shooting percentage of 180.89. He has scored 103 50 runs in 10 innings so far.SRH opener Abhishek has scored 440 points in 10 games, just 5 points behind second-placed Rahul. He has an average of 48.89 and a strike rate of 206.57, including 103 fifties.Abhishek’s teammates Heinrich Klassen Ranked third in IPL 2026 Orange Cap with 425 points in 10 games. With four half-centuries, he averages 53.13 and has a strike rate of 156.82.Rajasthan Royals teenage star Vaibhav Sooryavanshi ranks fourth with 404 runs in 10 games. The youngster has scored a staggering 237.64 runs this season, including 1250 runs.CSK bottle opener Sanzhou SamsonHe won the Man of the Match award against Washington D.C. and hit 87 game-winning runs in 52 games, taking his season tally to 402 points in 10 games. With the winning effort, Samson jumped up to fifth in the Orange Cap standings. The CSK batsman has an average of 57.43 and a strike rate of 167.50 with two hundreds and five fifties this season.
IPL 2026 Orange Cap Ranking after DC vs CSK match:
| rank | player | running | matches | bureau | SR | Avenue. | HS |
| 1 | Kuala Lumpur Rahul(DC) | Chapter 445 | 10 | 10 | 180.89 | 49.44 | 152* |
| 2 | Abhishek Sharma(SRH) | Chapter 440 | 10 | 10 | 206.57 | 48.89 | 135* |
| 3 | Heinrich Klassen (SRH) | Chapter 425 | 10 | 10 | 156.82 | 53.13 | 65* |
| 4 | Vaibhav Suryavanshi(RR) | 404 | 10 | 10 | 237.64 | 40.40 | 103 |
| 5 | Tri-State Samson (CSK) | Chapter 402 | 10 | 10 | 167.50 | 57.43 | 115* |
| 6 | Syed Sudarsan(GT) | Chapter 385 | 10 | 10 | 158.43 | 38.50 | 100 |
| 7 | Ryan Rickton (Michigan) | 380 | 8 | 8 | 190.95 | 54.29 | 123* |
| 8 | Virat Kohli(RCB) | Chapter 379 | 9 | 9 | 165.50 | 54.14 | 81 |
| 9 | Shubman Gill(GT) | Chapter 378 | 9 | 9 | 154.91 | 42.00 | 86 |
| 10 | Prabhusimran Singh(PBKS) | Chapter 361 | 9 | 8 | 174.39 | 51.57 | 80* |
