Orange Cap Race in IPL 2025: This 18th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2025) has now reached its decisive turn. This season has also got the qualifying team in the playoffs. At the same time, along with the IPL points table, the rans of runs for the orange cap is also going on very fun. Many big contenders for the orange cap this season are in front. Now another player has entered this race.

This player joined the race of Orange Cap

Lucknow Super Giants batsman Mitchell Marsh has come in the race of Orange Cap. Marsh has reached number four in this list. In the match played against Gujarat Titans on Thursday, May 22, on Thursday, 22 May, Marsh hit a century. Mitchell Marsh scored 117 runs in 64 balls in this match, due to which the team’s score reached 200 runs and Lucknow won over Gujarat. Mitchell Marsh has scored 560 runs in 12 matches so far this season and has reached number four among the highest run players.

Virat Kohli is out

Royal Challengers Bangalore star player Virat Kohli had been in the race of Orange Cap for a long time and also reached the top. Virat has scored 505 runs in 11 matches this season. If seen, Mitchell Marsh has only one match left in this season. At the same time, Virat Kohli also has to play playoff matches, then he may also be included in this list.

These players are present at the top

In the Orange Cap race, Gujarat Titans opener Sai Sudarshan is on top. Sudarshan has scored 638 runs in 13 matches. At the same time, GT captain Shubman Gill is second in this list. Gill has scored 636 runs in 13 matches. There is a difference of 2 runs in Sudarshan and Gill’s runs. In this list, Mumbai Indians player Suryakumar Yadav is at number three. Suryakumar has scored 583 runs in 13 matches. Mitchell Marsh is at number four with 560 runs in 12 matches. At the same time, Rajasthan Royals’ opening batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal is at number five in 14 matches.

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Gujarat Titans vs Lucknow Super GIANTS LIVE MATCH: The 64th match of IPL 2025 will be played between Gujarat Titans and Lucknow Super Giants today. The match will start at 7:30 pm at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Win or defeat in today’s match will not affect the playoffs, because the top 4 teams of IPL 2025 have been received before the league match is completed. But Gujarat would like to win the top of the IPL points table and stay on top in the table. At the same time, the team of Lucknow will try to end this tournament with good memories.

Who ahead in the head to head?

Gujarat Titans and Lucknow Super Giants have come face to face 6 times in the IPL tournament so far.

Possible playing XI of Gujarat Titans

Shubman Gill (captain), Sai Sudarshan, Jos Buttler (wicketkeeper), Sherfen Rutherford, Rahul Tewatia, Shah Rukh Khan, Arshad Khan, Rashid Khan, Ravishrinivasan Sai Kishore, Kagiso Rabada and famous Krishna.

Impact Player- Mohammad Siraj.

Possible playing XI of Lucknow Super Giants

Michelle Marsh, Aidan Markram, Nicholas Puran, Rishabh Pant (captain and wicketkeeper), Ayush Badoni, Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Shardul Thakur, Akash Deep, Avesh Khan and Ravi Bishnoi.

Impact Player- William Ourke.

IPL 2025 Points Table after Lucknow Victory: The 26th match of IPL 2025 was played between Lucknow Super Giants and Gujarat Titans on Saturday. The competition between the two teams took place at Ekana Stadium in Lucknow. Where Lucknow defeated Gujarat by 6 wickets, after which Lucknow reached third place with 8 points on the points table. At the same time, after losing Gujarat, Gujarat has come second from the first place.

This is Lucknow’s fourth win in 6 matches. Before this match, Lucknow was in sixth place. Gujarat Titans were at the top before this match. After losing, his run rate decreased. Because of which he came in second place. At the same time, Delhi Capitals have benefited from the defeat of Gujarat. He has now reached the top with 8 points on the points table.

After the victory of Lucknow, the condition of points table is like this

Delhi, Gujarat and Lucknow are ranked first, second and third on points table with 8 points. At the same time, Kolkata Knight Riders, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Punjab Kings are ranked fourth, fifth and sixth respectively with 6 points. Rajasthan Royals are at seventh position with four points. While Mumbai Indians, Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad are ranked 8th, 9th and 10th respectively with two points.

Another tremendous innings of Nicholas Puran

Gujarat, batting first, gave Lucknow Super Giants a target of 181 runs. After this, while chasing the target, Nicholas Puran played a tremendous innings of 61 runs in 34 balls. This was Puran’s fourth half -century in this season. Puran hit 7 sixes and a four in this innings. Due to which Lucknow won the match by achieving the target in 19.3 overs. For Lucknow, Aidan Markram also played a tremendous innings of 58 runs in 31 balls. In this innings, he hit 9 fours and a six.

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Lsg vs gt: Lucknow Super Giants won the target of 181 runs by Gujarat Titans in the final over and won by 6 wickets. Nicholas Puran (61), Aden Markram (58) scored a half -century in an explosive manner, making the target easier. Prior to this match, Nicholas Puran had an orange cap but in the first innings, Gujarat Titans player Sai Sudarshan captured the cap. In this match, 2 players wore an orange cap.

Prior to the match played on Saturday, Nicholas Puran had 228 runs in 5 innings. Sai Sudarshan was at number two, but in the first innings he won the orange cap by playing a brilliant half -century innings. Sudarshan shared a 120 -run partnership with Gill. He scored 56 runs in 37 balls, in this innings he hit 1 six and 7 fours. After this innings, he had an orange cap.

Nicholas Puran withdraws Orange Cap in a few hours

However, this orange cap remained with Sai Sudarshan for some time, as in the second innings, Nicholas Puran returned this cap by hitting another explosive half -century. Puran scored 61 runs in 34 balls with the help of 7 sixes and 1 fours. Puran scored his half -century in 23 balls. This is Puran’s 5th half -century this season, he was retained by Lucknow Super Giants for Rs 21 crore.

The top 5 batsmen who scored the most runs in IPL 2025 (after 26 matches)

Nicholas Puran (LSG)

• Match- 6
• Run- 349
• Most Score- 87*
• Strike Rate- 215.43

Sai Sudarshan (GT)

• Match- 6
• Run- 329
• Most Score- 82
• Strike Rate- 151.61

Michelle Marsh (LSG)

• Match- 5
• Run-265
• Most score- 81
• Strike Rate- 180.27

Jose Butler (GT)

• Match- 6
• Run- 218
• Most Score- 73
• Strike Rate- 157.97

Shubman Gill (GT)

• Match- 6
• Run-208
• Most score- 61
• Strike Rate- 149.64

LSG reached third in the points table

After this victory, Lucknow has reached the third number in the Super Gynts points table. This is Lucknow’s fourth win of this season 6. While the number 1 of Gujarat Titans has been taken away, it has slipped to second place before. This was the team’s second defeat in 6 matches. Delhi Capitals have now come first.

Lsg vs gt highlights: Under the captaincy of Rishabh Pant, Lucknow Super Giants defeated the Gujarat Titans captained by Shubman Gill by 6 wickets. Aden Markram (58) and Nicholas Puran (61) made Lucknow victory unilaterally by playing explosive innings but the match became exciting in the final moments. Lucknow needed 6 runs to win in the final over. On the first ball, Abdul Samad took a strike to Ayush Badoni with a single. Badoni equalized the score by hitting a brilliant four off the second ball. On the third ball, Badoni hit a six and won Lucknow by 6 wickets.

Captain Rishabh Pant and Aidon Markram started the innings for Lucknow Super Giants chasing 181 runs. Both of them got a big start, although the poor fielding of Gujarat also contributed to it. Pant and Markram scored 61 runs in the powerplay without losing wickets. On the second ball of the 7th over, Pant was caught out for hitting a big shot, scoring 21 runs in 18 balls.

Aden Markram continued the innings even after this and when he was out, Lucknow Super Giants reached a very strong position. Markram was caught out on the first ball of the 12th over, he scored 58 runs in 31 balls. In this innings, he hit 1 six and 9 fours. When Markram was out, Lucknow needed 58 runs in 53 balls to win.

No better way to seal a win

Ayush badoni with a maximum as lucknow erupts in joy @LuckNowipl Sum up a solid performance to secure a 6ager a 6ager-health Victory over #GT

Scorecard https://t.co/vilhbleerv #Tataipl , #LSGVGT pic.twitter.com/1D9Q4MJA9G

– Indianpremierleague (@IPL) April 12, 2025

Nicholas Puran’s explosive innings unilaterally match

Nicholas Puran, who came at number three, also lashed out at the bowlers of Gujarat Titans. He completed his half -century in 23 balls by hitting a four off the fourth ball of the 13th over. With this, he also got back his orange cap, which reached Sai Sudarshan after the first innings.

Nicholas Puran played a rage of 61 runs in 34 balls, in this innings he hit 7 sixes and 1 four. He was caught out on the second ball of the 16th over by Rashid Khan, at this time the team’s score was 155/3 and 26 runs were required to win.

Gill-Sai century partnership waste

Earlier, Gujarat Titans scored 180 runs while batting first, although the score should have gone to at least 210 from the way Shubman Gill and Sai Sudarshan started. Gill (60) and Sudarshan (56) added 120 runs for the first wicket. The middle order of Gujarat was a flop and the Gujarat team could score only 60 runs in the last 8 overs.

a Superb Opening Act of 1ager2 50 the deserved all the applause

Both openers department as #GT Are 123/2.

Updates https://t.co/vilhbleerv #Tataipl , #LSGVGT , @gujarat_titans pic.twitter.com/mtgxkius8e

– Indianpremierleague (@IPL) April 12, 2025

Shardul Thakur and Ravi Bishnoi took 2-2 wickets. Shardul completed 200 wickets of his T20 career. Among the bowlers who completed his 4 -overs spell, Digvesh Singh was the most economical, he took 1 wicket for 30 runs in 4 overs.

Lsg vs gt IPL 2025: Shardul Thakur bowled brilliantly against the Gujarat Titans, when Gill and Sudarshan were scoring runs, they gave only 13 runs in their first 2 overs. Thakur put the final over of the innings, in which he took 2 wickets. With this, he has achieved a big achievement in T20 cricket.

The pair of Gill and Sudarshan scored 120 runs for the first wicket, but the bowlers of Lucknow Super Gynts bowled in the middle order. Lucknow bowlers dominate even in death overs. Shardul Thakur conceded 11 runs in the final over and stopped Gujarat for 180 runs. In his 4 -overs spell, Shardul Thakur took 2 wickets for 34 runs.

Shardul Thakur completed 200 wickets in T20 cricket

In the final over, Thakur dismissed Sherfen Rutherford and Rahul Tewatia. He has completed 200 wickets in T20 cricket. Thakur’s performance has been excellent so far this season but he was unsold in the auction. He was out of injury to Mohsin Khan, after which the team included him as a replacement in his party.

The highest T20 wicket taker for India is Yuzvendra Chahal, who is currently playing for Punjab Kings. He has taken 365 wickets in 316 matches.

Shardul Thakur performs in IPL 2025

Shardul has taken 11 wickets in 6 matches of this season so far. He took the maximum 4 wickets against Sunrisers Hyderabad. Whereas in the first match, he took 2 wickets for 19 runs. In the match played earlier, he took 2 wickets against KKR, although he also looted 52 runs in it. Let us tell you that 4 of these 11 wickets, Shardul has got it on full toss ball, while no other bowler has got even a wicket on full toss ball.

Talking about Shardul Thakur’s T20 career, he has taken 200 wickets in 174 matches. Apart from the league, he has taken 33 wickets in 25 international T20 matches played for India.

IPL 2025: Gujarat Titans opener Sai Sudarshan completed his half -century in 32 balls against Lucknow Super Giants. He formed a century partnership with Shubman Gill. Sudarshan’s bat is spewing a lot of fire this season. Do you know that Shubman Gill’s father has also served Team India. His mother has been a national level volleyball player.

Sai Sudarshan made his IPL debut for Gujarat Titans in 2022, since then he has been associated with this franchise. Last year, where his IPL price was Rs 20 lakh, this time he was retained by Gujarat Titans by paying many times.

Sai Sudarshan scored 56 runs in the match against Lucknow. This is his fourth half century in 6 matches. Sai Sudarshan has scored a total of 329 runs in 6 matches, which has played in IPL 2025 so far. He has an orange cap till the news is written.

Important things about Sai Sudarshan

• Birth: October 15, 2001
• Date of birth: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
• Religion: Hindu
• Batting style: Left -handed batsman
• Hobby: Apart from cricket, you like to roam.

Sai Sudarshan’s family

• Father: R has represented India at the South Asian Games in Dhaka.
• Mother: Usha Bhardwaj (Volleyball)- Tamil Nadu is represented in volleyball at the national level.

Sai Sudarshan IPL Price

2022: 20 Lakh (GT)
2023: 20 Lakh (GT)
2024: 20 Lakh (GT)
2025: 8.50 Crore (GT)

Sai Sudarshan’s performance so far

Sai Sudarshan played a brilliant innings of 74 runs in the first match against Punjab Kings. After this, in the second match, he also hit a half -century (63) against Mumbai. In the third match, he was away from 1 run from his half -century. Prior to the match against Lucknow Super Giants, he also played a stormy innings of 82 runs against Rajasthan Royals. Sudarshan scored 56 runs in 37 balls against Lucknow Super Giants.

1. GT vs pbks: 74
2. GT vs mi: 63
3. GT vs RCB: 49
4. GT vs SRH: 5
5. GT vs rr: 82
6. GT vs LSG: 56

Why Mitchell Marsh Not Playing Today: Mitchell Marsh is not playing in the Lucknow Super Giants vs. Gujarat Titans match being played at the Ekana International Cricket Stadium, while he is still an important member of the team. He is not out due to injury. In the toss, Lucknow captain Rishabh Pant explained the reason for being out of the Australian opener.

Rishabh Pant won the toss and decided to bowl first. After the toss, he told that there has been only 1 change in his team today. Michelle Marsh is not playing, Himmat Singh has been replaced in the playing 11. Pant told that Mitchell Marsh’s daughter is ill, so she takes care of them and is not playing today.

LSG Vs GT: Playing 11 of both teams

Lucknow Super Giants: Nicholas Puran, Aiden Markram, Rishabh Pant (captain, wicketkeeper), Himmat Singh, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Shardul Thakur, Digvesh Rathi, Akash Deep, Avesh Khan, Ravi Bishnoi.

Impact Players: Ayush Badoni, Prince Yadav, Shahbaz Ahmed, Matthew Breetzke, Shamar Joseph.

Gujarat Titans: Shubman Gill (captain), Sai Sudarshan, Jose Butler (wicketkeeper), Washington Sundar, Sherfen Rutherford, Shah Rukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Arshad Khan, Rashid Khan, Sai Kishore, Mohammad Siraj.

Impact Players: Famous Krishna, Mahipal Lomorore, Nishant Sindhu, Anuj Rawat, Jayant Yadav.

Lsg vs gt playing 11: The first match of double header in IPL 2025 today is being played between Lucknow Super Giants and Gujarat Titans. Rishabh Pant has won the toss and decided to bowl first. Rishabh Pant told during the toss that Mitchell Marsh’s daughter is ill, so she is not playing today. This is the only change in the playing 11 of Lucknow. Gujarat, captained by Shubman Gill, has also made 1 change in playing 11.

Playing 11 of Lucknow Super Giants

Nicholas Puran, Aiden Markram, Rishabh Pant (captain, wicketkeeper), Himmat Singh, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Shardul Thakur, Digvesh Rathi, Akash Deep, Avesh Khan, Ravi Bishnoi.

Impact Players: Ayush Badoni, Prince Yadav, Shahbaz Ahmed, Matthew Breetzke, Shamar Joseph.

Gujarat Titans playing 11

Shubman Gill (captain), Sai Sudarshan, Jose Butler (wicketkeeper), Washington Sundar, Sherfen Rutherford, Shah Rukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Arshad Khan, Rashid Khan, Sai Kishore, Mohammad Siraj.

Impact Players: Famous Krishna, Mahipal Lomorore, Nishant Sindhu, Anuj Rawat, Jayant Yadav.

Where in Lucknow and Gujarat points table before the match?

Gujarat Titans, captained by Shubman Gill, won 4 out of 5 matches played before this match. The first match was lost by the team but after that the team has won in all four matches. At the same time, the journey of Lucknow Super Giants captained by Rishabh Pant has been ups and down, but the team has won both their previous matches. After winning 3 matches in 5, Lucknow is at number six in the points table.

LSG vs GT Live Telecast: Where is the live broadcast of Lucknow vs Gujarat match?

You can see the live broadcast of the match going on between Lucknow Super Giants vs. Gujarat Titans on the channels of Star Sports Network.

LSG vs GT Live Streaming?

Live streaming geographist of Lucknow vs Gujarat match is being held on the app and website.