IPL 2026: Prasidh Krishna Closes Gap With Ravi Bishnoi In Purple Cap Race, GT 6th In Points Table

Gujarat Titans managed to successfully defend the total of 210 runs against Delhi Capitals at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Wednesday, April 8, to secure their first win of IPL 2026. Delhi Capitals needed 2 runs to win from 2 balls when David Miller decided not to take a single, and then on the final ball of the match he failed to connect the bat, and Jos Buttler ran Kuldeep Yadav out at the striker’s end to seal a memorable win by one run for the visitors.

After losing their first match of IPL 2026, DC remain 4th in the points table, whereas Gujarat Titans are now 6th in the league table from 9th.

IPL 2026 points table after Delhi Capitals vs Gujarat Titans IPL 2026 match on April 8

POSITION	TEAM	MATCHES	WINS	DEFEATS	NO RESULT	POINTS	NRR
1.	Rajasthan Royals	3	3	0	0	6	2.403
2.	Punjab Kings	3	2	0	1	5	0.637
3.	Royal Challengers Bengaluru	2	2	0	0	4	2.501
4.	Delhi Capitals	3	2	1	0	4	0.811
5.	Sunrisers Hyderabad	3	1	2	0	2	0.275
6.	Gujarat Titans	3	1	2	0	2	-0.270
7.	Lucknow Super Giants	2	1	1	0	2	-0.542
8.	Mumbai Indians	3	1	2	0	2	-0.715
9.	Kolkata Knight Riders	3	0	2	1	1	-1.964
10.	Chennai Super Kings	3	0	3	0	0	-2.517

Orange Cap 

Sameer Rizvi had a chance to go past Yashasvi Jaiswal’s

tally of 170 runs on Wednesday and once again take the No. 1 position in the IPL 2026 Orange Cap race, but he got out for a golden duck off Rashid Khan’s bowling in the 211-run chase. GT’s wicketkeeper-batter Jos Buttler scored 52 runs from 27 balls on Wednesday, and Shubman Gill played a knock of 70 runs. The Super Show by them not just helped GT post a total of 210 for 4 in 20 overs but also helped them take 6th and 9th positions in the list of batters with the most runs in this year’s IPL.

Gill has 109 runs to his name in two IPL 2026 matches for Gujarat Titans, and Buttler has amassed a total of 116 runs in three matches played so far.

IPL 2026 Orange Cap leaderboard after DC vs GT match on April 8

POSITION	PLAYER	TEAM	MATCHES	RUNS	STRIKE RATE
1.	Yashasvi Jaiswal	Rajasthan Royals	3	170	163.46
2.	Sameer Rizvi	Delhi Capitals	3	160	161.61
3.	Heinrich Klaasen	Sunrisers Hyderabad	3	145	147.95
4.	Vaibhav Sooryavanshi	Rajasthan Royals	3	122	248.97
5.	Rohit Sharma	Mumbai Indians	3	118	168.57
6	Jos Buttler	Gujarat Titans	3	116	156.75
7.	Devdutt Padikkal	Royal Challengers Bengaluru	2	111	201.81
8.	Angkrish Raghuvanshi	Kolkata Knight Riders	3	110	169.23
9.	Shubman Gill	Gujarat Titans	2	109	151.38
10.	Cooper Connolly	Punjab Kings	3	108	163.63

Purple Cap

Rajasthan Royals spinner Ravi Bishnoi leads the Purple Cap race in IPL 2026 with 7 wickets to his name in 3 matches, and GT’s Prasidh Krishna is in 2nd place with 6 wickets in 3 matches. The Purple Cap winner of IPL 2025 accounted for the dismissal of 2 DC batters at Kotla.

DC’s fast bowler Lungi Ngidi, who picked up 1 wicket for 24 runs in four overs against GT, is in 3rd place with 5 wickets in three matches. A total of four other bowlers have also dismissed 5 batters in this year’s IPL, but due to a better economy rate in comparison to them, Ngidi is in 3rd place.

IPL 2026 Purple Cap leaderboard after DC vs GT match on April 8

POSITION	PLAYER	TEAM	MATCHES	WICKETS	ECONOMY
1.	Ravi Bishnoi	Rajasthan Royals	3	7	9.11
2.	Prasidh Krishna	Gujarat Titans	3	6	10.33
3.	Lungi Ngidi	Delhi Capitals	3	5	7.28
4.	Nandre Burger	Rajasthan Royals	3	5	8.44
5.	Vijaykumar Vyshak	Punjab Kings	3	5	9.00
6.	Jacob Duffy	Royal Challengers Bengaluru	2	5	10.00
7.	Anshul Kamboj	Chennai Super Kings	3	5	11.43
8.	Rashid Khan	Gujarat Titans	3	4	7.36
9.	Prince Yadav	Lucknow Super Giants	2	4	7.71
10.	Harsh Dubey	Sunrisers Hyderabad	3	4	7.77

On Thursday, Lucknow Super Giants will face Kolkata Knight Riders in their third league match of this year’s IPL at Eden Gardens in Kolkata.