IPL 2023 orange cap: Which players currently hold the IPL 2023 orange and purple caps in the 2023 IPL?

On Monday, April 10, Lucknow Super Giants upset Royal Challengers Bangalore Kings by a single wicket. The Lucknow team now holds the first spot in the IPL 2023 points standings thanks to their victory.

Mark Wood, the top wicket-taker for the Lucknow side, added one wicket to his season total in the third game he played, moving him to the top of the Purple Cap standings for the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023.

He picked up a five-wicket haul in his first game against the Delhi Capitals on April 1 (Saturday), and three wickets in his second game against the Chennai Super Kings on April 3 (Monday).

Who is the orange cap holder in the 2023 IPL?

Shikhar Dhawan, captain of the Punjab Kings, surged to the top of the run charts with an unbeaten 99 in a loss to Sunrisers Hyderabad. He now has 225 runs from three games at a strike rate of 149. Ruturaj Gaikwad, the starting opener for Chennai Super Kings, is in second place with 189 runs after three games. Faf Du Plessis, the skipper of Royal Challengers Bangalore, moves up to third place with 175 runs after a 79-run blitz against the Lucknow Super Giants, while teammate Virat Kohli finishes fourth with 164 runs. The Delhi Capitals’ captain David Warner completes the top five with 158 runs at a strike rate of 117 in three games.

This season, no batter has yet reached 100 hits, but Dhawan came close.

In the IPL of 2023, who has the purple cap? Mark Wood grabbed five wickets in the first game of the season for the Lucknow Super Giants, and he added four more in the following two games to take the top spot on the list of wicket-takers. Yuzvendra Chahal of the Rajasthan Royals and Rashid Khan of the Gujarat Titans are tied for second place with eight wickets each from three games with an identical economy of 7.83 after Chahal’s 4 for 17 against Sunrisers Hyderabad.

Virat Kohli | Rohit Sharma | Rishabh Pant | KL Rahul | Suryakumar Yadav | Sanju Samson | Shreyas Iyer | Yuzvendra Chahal | Jasprit Bumrah

Arshdeep Singh of the Punjab Kings, Mohammed Shami, Alzarri Joseph of the Gujarat Titans, Sunil Narine of the Kolkata Knight Riders, and Ravi Bishnoi of LSG are the five bowlers tied for third place with six wickets each. Seven bowlers are tied for fifth place with four wickets each, while six bowlers have taken five wickets each in three games to tie for fourth place. Mayank Markande of Sunrisers Hyderabad took all four of those bowlers’ wickets in the one game he participated in.

The only bowler in the competition to date with a five-wicket haul is Wood.