Suryakumar Yadav smashed a 28-ball 54 towards the Lucknow Tremendous Giants to assert the Orange Cap as Mumbai Indians scored 215/7 within the first innings of their Indian Premier League conflict on the Wankhede Stadium. Yadav’s knock throws down the gauntlet for Lucknow Tremendous Giants’ Nicholas Pooran, who’s at present fourth within the standings with 377 runs from 9 innings. Virat Kohli, who’s third within the Orange Cap race with 392 runs can be in motion later when Royal Challengers Bengaluru face Delhi Capitals.
Yadav has scored 427 runs in 10 innings in IPL 2025.
“It’s the primary time I’m sporting this (Orange Cap) after a very long time, feels actually particular,” Yadav advised the broadcasters JioHotstar within the mid-innings break. “I used to be actually glad once we misplaced the toss, as a result of it’s actually sizzling on the market however scoring 200-plus it’s actually good from a batting perspective. It’s a very good rating and I really feel the wicket is a bit of sluggish and I really feel it’s going to be difficult on the market for his or her batting line-up, let’s see the way it goes.”
Orange Cap race after Mumbai Indians innings
| Rank | Participant Title | Crew | Runs | Mat | Inn | NO | HS | AVG | SR |
| 1 | Suryakumar Yadav | MI | 427 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 68* | 61 | 169.44 |
| 2 | Sai Sudharsan | GT | 417 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 82 | 52.13 | 152.18 |
| 3 | Virat Kohli | RCB | 392 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 73* | 65.33 | 144.11 |
| 4 | Nicholas Pooran | LSG | 377 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 87* | 47.13 | 204.89 |
| 5 | Jos Buttler | GT | 356 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 97* | 71.2 | 165.58 |
Within the course of, Yadav additionally turned the third quickest batter to get to 4000 runs within the IPL. Whereas Yadav took 2714 balls to get to the milestone, he was solely behind the Royal Challengers Bengaluru pairing of Chris Gayle and AB De Villiers. Whereas West Indies legend Gayle took 2658 balls to get to Mount 4000, De Villiers wanted 2658 balls.