Top 5 players who can win the Orange Cap in IPL 2026

Published - 11 Mar 2026, 16:47 IST | Updated - 11 Mar 2026, 16:47 IST

The T20 World Cup may have culminated but T20 cricket’s biggest festival returns with the 19th edition of the IPL set to start on March 28. Over the last two years India’s premier franchise league has seen incredible displays of batsmanship and fireworks of the highest order with record totals and more frequent scores over 200.

This means individual displays of batsmanship and prime batters carrying form throughout the season. Legends of the game have won the IPL Orange Cap with earth-shattering season, let us take a look at who could potentially add their name to this glorious list this time around.

Sai Sudharsan was the main man with the bat for Gujarat Titans last season. With a blistering 759 runs, he won the 2025 Orange Cap as Gujarat made it to the Eliminator, losing out to the Mumbai Indians in a game where Sudharsan’s innings almost took them over the line. He formed a solid partnership with Shubhman Gill at the top of the order, holding the Titan’s batting innings together and stabilising it. He averaged 54.21 and struck at 156.17 with six half-centuries and one century.

In a year which subsequently saw him make his Test debut for India, and struggling for form and runs, Sai would want to make a statement in this year’s IPL, and what better way to do it than joining the likes of Chris Gayle, David Warner and Virat Kohli as winners of the Orange Cap in multiple seasons