Punjab Kings registered a 5-wicket win over Chennai Super Kings at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in the IPL 2026 encounter between the sides on Friday as the visitors chased down the target of 210 with 8 balls to spare riding on a half-century from skipper Shreyas Iyer, while Cooper Connolly’s 36-run off 22 deliveries took him past Kolkata Knight Riders’ Angkrish Raghuvanshi in the Orange Cap rankings.
Punjab Kings climbed to the top of the IPL 2026 points table with two wins in as many assignments, while Chennai are yet to open their account in the ongoing season of the money-rich T20 league.
IPL 2026 points table after KKR vs SRH match on April 2, 2026
| POSITION | TEAM | MATCHES | WINS | DEFEATS | NO RESULT | POINTS | NRR |
| 1. | Punjab Kings | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.637 |
| 2. | Rajasthan Royals | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4.171 |
| 3. | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2.907 |
| 4. | Delhi Capitals | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1.397 |
| 5. | Mumbai Indians | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.687 |
| 6. | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.469 |
| 7. | Gujarat Titans | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -0.509 |
| 8. | Lucknow Super Giants | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -1.397 |
| 9. | Kolkata Knight Riders | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | -1.964 |
| 10. | Chennai Super Kings | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | -2.562 |
Orange Cap
Connolly’s innings took him to the top of the Orange Cap rankings with 108 runs to his
name edging past the KKR starboy, who has two fifties in as many games. Ayush Mhatre’s brilliant 73 runs innings helped CSK past the 200-run mark as he entered the top-10 of the run-maker’s table.
IPL 2026 Orange Cap leaderboard after KKR vs SRH match on April 2
| POSITION | PLAYER | TEAM | MATCHES | RUNS |
| 1 | Cooper Connolly | Punjab Kings | 2 | 108 |
| 2 | Angkrish Raghuvanshi | Kolkata Knight Riders | 2 | 103 |
| 3 | Ishan Kishan | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 2 | 94 |
| 4 | Heinrich Klaasen | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 2 | 83 |
| 5 | Ryan Rickelton | Mumbai Indians | 1 | 81 |
| 6 | Prabhsimran Singh | Punjab Kings | 2 | 80 |
| 7 | Rohit Sharma | Mumbai Indians | 1 | 78 |
| 8 | Ajinkya Rahane | Kolkata Knight Riders | 2 | 75 |
| 9 | Ayush Mhatre | Chennai Super Kings | 2 | 73 |
| 10 | Sameer Rizvi | Delhi Capitals | 1 | 70 |
Purple Cap
PBKS pacer Vyshak Vijaykumar’s brace of wickets helped him to the top of the wicket-taker’s rankings with 5 wickets from 2 outings in the ongoing campaign pipping past SRH’s Jayadev Unadkat.
Yuzvendra Chahal picked up the wicket of CSK skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad to advance in the table, while Anshul Kamboj removed Connolly and Shreyas Iyer to climb to third in the rankings.
IPL 2026 Purple Cap leaderboard after KKR vs SRH match on April 2
| POSITION | PLAYER | TEAM | MATCHES | WICKETS | BEST FIGURES | ECONOMY |
| 1 | Vijaykumar Vyshak | Punjab Kings | 2 | 5 | 3/34 | 9.0 |
| 2 | Jaydev Unadkat | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 2 | 4 | 3/21 | 12.50 |
| 3 | Anshul Kamboj | Chennai Super Kings | 2 | 4 | 2/27 | 10.50 |
| 4 | Blessing Muzarabani | Kolkata Knight Riders | 2 | 4 | 4/41 | 10.71 |
| 5 | Jacob Duffy | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 1 | 3 | 3/22 | 5.50 |
| 6 | Yuzvendra Chahal | Punjab Kings | 2 | 3 | 2/28 | 7.0 |
| 7 | T Natarajan | Delhi Capitals | 1 | 3 | 3/29 | 7.25 |
| 8 | Prasidh Krishna | Gujarat Titans | 1 | 3 | 3/29 | 7.25 |
| 9 | Lungi Ngidi | Delhi Capitals | 1 | 3 | 3/27 | 7.36 |
| 10 | Shardul Thakur | Mumbai Indians | 1 | 3 | 3/39 | 9.75 |
