Ishan Kishan played a whirlwind knock of 91 off 44 deliveries during Sunrisers Hyderabad's Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 match against Rajasthan Royals at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Hyderabad on Monday. By doing so, he has become the second leading run scorer in the Orange Cap race this season.
Kishan's innings comprised of eight fours and six sixes. This is his second half-century in the IPL this year. Kishan hammered 80 off 38 deliveries against Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the season opener.
Kishan has amassed 213 runs in five innings at an average of 42.6 and an impressive strike rate of 190.17. Kishan's teammate Heinrich Klaasen is leading the run-scoring charts with 224 runs.
Here is a look at the top-five leading run-scorers of 2026 IPL
| Player | Team | Matches Played | Runs Scored | Highest | 50s/100 |
| Heinrich Klaasen | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 5 | 224 | 62 | 2/0 |
| Ishan Kishan | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 5 | 213 | 91 | 2/0 |
| Vaibhav Sooryavanshi | Rajasthan Royals | 5 | 200 | 78 | 2/0 |
| Rajat Patidar | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 4 | 195 | 63 | 2/0 |
| Yashavi Jaiswal | Rajasthan Royals | 5 | 183 | 77* | 2/0 |
Rajasthan Royals captain Riyan Parag won the toss and opted to field first on April 13. Opener Abhishek Sharma got out for a first-ball duck, slicing Jofra Archer's delivery to deep backward point. But Kishan's innings along with helping hands from Klaasen (40 off 26), Nitish Kumar Reddy (28 off 13), and Salil Arora (24* off 13) helped SRH post 216/6.
While Archer took two wickets, Shandeep Sharma, Tushar Deshpande and Parag took a wicket-a-piece.
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