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IPL 2025 Points Table, Orange Cap and Purple Cap after RCB vs PBKS: Punjab Kings rise to the No. 2 position in the points table after beating Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the rain-curtailed match at M Chinnaswamy Stadium.
IPL 2025 Points Table, Orange Cap and Purple Cap Latest Standings after Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings match. (Picture Credit: Sportzpics)
IPL 2025 Points Table, Orange Cap and Purple Cap after RCB vs PBKS: Punjab Kings chased down the target of 96 runs in 12.1 overs on Friday (April 18) to win the IPL 2025 match played against Royal Challengers Bengaluru at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru by 5 wickets. Nehal Wadhera remained unbeaten on 33 runs from 19 balls for PBKS in the rain-hit match after the Shreyas Iyer-led side restricted Rajat Patidar & Co. to just 95 runs in 14 overs.
The win in Bengaluru helped Punjab Kings rise to the No. 2 position in the IPL 2025 points table, whereas RCB have dropped to the No. 4 position with 8 points from seven matches played so far.
IPL 2025 points table after the conclusion of RCB-PBKS match in Bengaluru
| Position | Team | Matches | Wins | Losses | NR | Points | NRR |
| 1. | Delhi Capitals | 6 | 5 | 1 | – | 10 | 0.744 |
| 2. | Punjab Kings | 7 | 5 | 2 | – | 10 | 0.308 |
| 3. | Gujarat Titans | 6 | 4 | 2 | – | 8 | 1.081 |
| 4. | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 7 | 4 | 3 | – | 8 | 0.046 |
| 5. | Lucknow Super Giants | 7 | 4 | 3 | – | 8 | 0.086 |
| 6. | Kolkata Knight Riders | 7 | 3 | 4 | – | 6 | 0.547 |
| 7. | Mumbai Indians | 7 | 3 | 4 | – | 6 | 0.239 |
| 8. | Rajasthan Royals | 7 | 2 | 5 | – | 4 | -0.714 |
| 9. | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 7 | 2 | 5 | – | 4 | -1.217 |
| 10. | Chennai Super Kings | 7 | 2 | 5 | – | 2 | -1.276 |
Orange Cap
Tim David remained unbeaten on 50 runs from 26 balls for RCB, but the likes of Rajat Patidar, Virat Kohli and Phil Salt failed to do much with the bat. While Patidar scored 23 runs from 18 balls with the help of one four and one six, Kohli and Salt were sent back to the pavilion for 1 and 4 runs, respectively, by Arshdeep Singh.
In the 96-run chase, Priyansh Arya (16) and Prabhsimran Singh (13) helped PBKS get off to a flying start, but they failed to convert their innings into a big knock. However Priyansh’s 16-run knock helped him leapfrog Abhishek Sharma and take No. 10 position in Orange Cap leaderboard. Shreyas Iyer scored 7 runs from 10 balls and he remained at No. 5 position in list of leading run getters with a total of 257 runs to his name in seven matches played so far.
Most Runs in IPL 2025 – Orange Cap leaderboard after RCB vs PBKS match
| Position | Player | Team | Games | Runs | S/R | Avg | Best |
| 1. | Nicholas Pooran | Lucknow Super Giants | 7 | 357 | 208.77 | 59.50 | 87* |
| 2. | Sai Sudharsan | Gujarat Titans | 6 | 329 | 151.61 | 54.83 | 82 |
| 3. | Mitchell Marsh | Lucknow Super Giants | 7 | 295 | 171.51 | 49.17 | 81 |
| 4. | Suryakumar Yadav | Mumbai Indians | 7 | 265 | 151.42 | 44.17 | 67 |
| 5. | Shreyas Iyer | Punjab Kings | 7 | 257 | 194.69 | 51.40 | 97* |
| 6. | Virat Kohli | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 7 | 249 | 141.57 | 49.80 | 67 |
| 7. | Travis Head | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 7 | 242 | 168.05 | 34.57 | 67 |
| 8. | KL Rahul | Delhi Capitals | 5 | 238 | 154.54 | 59.50 | 93* |
| 9. | Yashasvi Jaiswal | Rajasthan Royals | 7 | 233 | 138.69 | 33.29 | 75 |
| 10. | Priyansh Arya | Punjab Kings | 7 | 232 | 209.00 | 33.14 | 103 |
Josh Hazlewood dismissed three PBKS batters for 13 runs in three overs on Friday, and his best figures of IPL 2025 helped him take second position in the list of bowlers with the most wickets in the IPL this year. He has picked up 12 wickets in seven matches for the Bengaluru-based franchise.
For Punjab Kings, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Harpreet Brar and Marco Jansen picked up two wickets each in Bengaluru to restrict the home team to 96/9 in 14 overs. The figures of 2 for 23 in two overs helped Arshdeep extend his tally of wickets to 10 in seven IPL matches this year, and he now sits at the No. 11 position in the Purple Cap leaderboard.
Most Wickets in IPL 2025 – Purple Cap leaderboard after RCB vs PBKS match
| Position | Player | Team | Matches | Wickets | Economy | Best Figures |
| 1. | Noor Ahmad | Chennai Super Kings | 7 | 12 | 7.12 | 4/18 |
| 2. | Josh Hazlewood | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 7 | 12 | 8.47 | 3/13 |
| 3. | Kuldeep Yadav | Delhi Capitals | 6 | 11 | 5.73 | 3/22 |
| 4. | Khaleel Ahmed | Chennai Super Kings | 7 | 11 | 9.00 | 3/29 |
| 5. | Hardik Pandya | Mumbai Indians | 7 | 11 | 9.15 | 5/36 |
| 6. | Shardul Thakur | Lucknow Super Giants | 7 | 11 | 10.52 | 4/34 |
| 7. | Varun Chakaravarthy | Kolkata Knight Riders | 7 | 10 | 6.22 | 3/22 |
| 8. | Prasidh Krishna | Gujarat Titans | 6 | 10 | 6.95 | 3/24 |
| 9. | R Sai Kishore | Gujarat Titans | 6 | 10 | 8.47 | 3/30 |
| 10. | Mohammed Siraj | Gujarat Titans | 6 | 10 | 8.50 | 4/17 |
