RCB Rise To No. 1 Position In IPL 2026 Points Table, Jacob Duffy Joins Purple Cap Race

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) jumped to the top of the IPL 2026 points table after a huge 43-run win over Southern rivals Chennai Super Kings (CSK) at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Sunday.

Batting first, RCB hit a record 250/3 in the first innings after a complete batting performance where the lowest score was 28. Tim David was the star of the show with the bat, with his 25-ball 70.

In reply, CSK were bowled out for 207 in 19.4 overs. Bhuvneshwar Kumar starred with a three-wicket haul, while three bowlers — Jacob Duffy, Krunal Pandya, and Abhinandan Singh took two wickets each.

IPL 2026 updated points table after RCB vs CSK match on April 5

Position	Team	Matches	Wins	Defeats	No Result	Points	NRR
4	Royal Challengers Bengaluru	2	2	0	0	4	2.907
1	Rajasthan Royals	2	2	0	0	4	2.233
2	Delhi Capitals	2	2	0	0	4	1.170
3	Punjab Kings	2	2	0	0	4	0.637
5	Sunrisers Hyderabad	2	1	1	0	2	0.469
6	Mumbai Indians	2	1	1	0	2	-0.206
7	Gujarat Titans	2	0	2	0	0	-0.424
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	3	0	3	0	0	-2.562

Orange Cap

Delhi Capitals’ Sameer Rizvi kept hold of the Orange cap despite the RCB-CSK match seeing 457 runs scored by both teams. Devdutt Padikkal jumped to the fourth spot on

the list, though, with 111 runs after his second consecutive half-century, a 50 off 29.

Virat Kohli scored 28 (18) and finished eighth on the list. Former RCB and now CSK middle-order batter Sarfaraz Khan, meanwhile, hit a 25-ball 50 in a losing cause which got him to number seven on the list.

Position	Player	Team	Matches	Runs
1	Sameer Rizvi	DC	2	160
2	Heinrich Klaasen	SRH	3	145
3	Rohit Sharma	MI	2	113
4	Devdutt Padikkal	RCB	2	111
5	Cooper Connolly	PBKS	2	108
6	Angkrish Raghuvanshi	KKR	2	103
7	Sarfaraz Khan	CSK	3	99
8	Virat Kohli	RCB	2	97
9	Nitish Kumar Reddy	SRH	3	96
10	Ishan Kishan	SRH	3	95

Purple Cap

Rajasthan Royals spinner Ravi Bishnoi took the Purple Cap after his four-wicket haul on Saturday. On Sunday, RCB pacer Jacob Duffy and CSK speedster Anshul Kamboj joined him and Vijay Kumar Vyshak in the five-wicket club. Duffy, who took two wickets, and Kamboj, who took one scalp, will be third and fourth, respectively, due to their high economy rates.

Duffy has proven in this short time that he can be more than a temporary replacement for Josh Hazlewood.

Position	Player	Team	Matches	Wickets	Economy
1	Ravi Bishnoi	RR	2	5	8.14
2	Vijaykumar Vyshak	PBKS	2	5	9.00
3	Jacob Duffy	RCB	2	5	9.68
4	Anshul Kamboj	CSK	3	5	11.43
5	T Natarajan	DC	2	4	7.57
6	Prince Yadav	LSG	2	4	7.71
7	Harsh Dubey	SRH	3	4	7.77
8	Lungi Ngidi	DC	2	4	7.95
9	Prasidh Krishna	GT	2	4	9.00
10	Jaydev Unadkat	SRH	3	4	10.16