Prasidh Krishna's grabbed the IPL 2026 Purple Cap lead. Ten wickets from four games. That matchwinning 4/28 powered Gujarat Titans to a seven-wicket romp over Lucknow Super Giants, chasing 165 after Shubman Gill and Jos Buttler smacked fifties—their 84-run stand sealing it once LSG stumbled to 164 for 8. He overtook Ravi Bishnoi for top spot.

Rajat Patidar's exploded into second in the Orange Cap race with 195 runs, thanks to his 53 off 20 balls—4 fours and 5 sixes—in RCB's 18-run win over Mumbai Indians. Virat Kohli chipped in a gritty 50 off 38 there, jumping into the top five. RCB's batting lit up Wankhede with 240 for 4, Phil Salt's 78 the highlight.

GT's jumped into the top five now. LSG's middle order looks shaky after that narrow escape against KKR. Sunday's double-header with them cranks up the race.

Craig Overton put on a match-winning all-round display. Somerset crushed Essex by 10 wickets in County Championship Division One at Chelmsford. Acting captain Overton belted his second career century, snared four wickets, and pouched a key catch.

Somerset knocked off 47 in just 5.4 overs. Archie Vaughan finished unbeaten on 41 off 25 balls. Essex crumbled to 245 in their second innings—after Overton's 141 had already laid waste to any hopes. Somerset pocket 21 points. Their first win of the campaign.

Those hard lengths at 145kph. Deadly stuff. Echoes of his T20 days.

Punjab Kings nailed the chase against Sunrisers Hyderabad right there at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh Stadium. SRH openers Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma tore into the bowling early—120 runs in the first eight overs. Abhishek Sharma hammered 74 off 28 balls. Head chipped in with 38 off 23. PBKS fought back hard though. Bundled SRH to 219/6.

PBKS raced home to 223/4 in 18.5 overs. Six-wicket win. Shreyas Iyer unbeaten on 69. Priyansh Arya and Prabhsimran Singh laid the foundation with their 99-run powerplay partnership. Xavier Bartlett snagged a crucial wicket. That kicked off SRH's collapse.

PBKS now boasts a 10th win chasing 200-plus. SRH's blistering openers faded fast. They're waiting on captain Pat Cummins' return April 17. Fresh off injury.

Rajasthan Royals pulled off a six-wicket win over Royal Challengers Bengaluru at Barsapara Cricket Stadium. Chasing 202. They got there in 18 overs flat, all down to fireworks from 15-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi and Dhruv Jurel—Suryavanshi with 78 off 26 balls, capping it with a 15-ball fifty, his second joint third-fastest in IPL history. Kid now leads IPL 2026 scoring, 200 runs in four innings at 266.66 strike rate.

Jurel unbeaten on 81 off 43. Ice-cool maturity all the way. Ambati Rayudu called him a complete batsman with top technique and temperament. Aaron Finch picked up on his awareness against pace and spin. At No. 3 this season, he's piled up 176 runs. RR bowlers laid the groundwork—Jofra Archer 3/33-2, Ravi Bishnoi 4/32-2, Ravindra Jadeja 2/14-1. RCB's Rajat Patidar managed 63 off 40. Kohli's 32 off 16 fell short, even after their 43-run win over CSK.

Came right after RR's 27-run triumph over MI in a rain-cut game. Suryavanshi and Jurel. Young guns carrying RR's charge.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru smashed Chennai Super Kings by 43 runs right there at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium. They racked up 250 for 3—their third-highest IPL total, and yeah, the best ever against CSK. Tim David exploded for 70 not out off 25 balls, smashing 3 fours and 8 sixes after strolling in at the 15th over. First time that's happened in IPL history, at least with the ball-by-ball data we've got. Rajat Patidar hung tough on 48 off 19 (1x4, 6x6). Devdutt Padikkal cracked 50 off 29. Phil Salt fired 46 off 30.

CSK folded to 207 all out in 19.4 overs. Sarfaraz Khan led with 50 off 25 (8x4, 2x6). Prashant Veer chipped in 43 off 29, Jamie Overton 37 off 16. Bhuvneshwar Kumar grabbed 3 for 41. Jacob Duffy snared 2 for 58. RCB's attack didn't buckle—Suyash Sharma (1/21), Krunal Pandya (2/36). Third loss in a row for CSK. They'd dropped that one to PBKS by 5 wickets too.

R Ashwin labeled his old CSK days 'mentally disturbing' after this beating. Ambati Rayudu ripped into CSK's dodgy tactic that MS Dhoni never signed off on. Captaincy numbers? Rajat Patidar's soaring for RCB. Ruturaj Gaikwad's dropping for CSK. Shreyas Iyer holding steady at PBKS.

Rinku Singh grabbed his 41st IPL catch for KKR, topping Andre Russell's franchise mark right in the middle of that SRH defeat. Sharp work in the field from the finisher. But then came the run-out. Teammate Angkrish Raghuvanshi gifted his wicket away needlessly, and Rinku's frustration erupted—fists clenched, glaring at the mess.

That anger? It laid bare KKR's batting comms issues. Pundits keep picking at his middle-overs role too, the one that's blunting his late-order bite. Take the LSG game: he scraped 4 off 7 balls while KKR racked up 181/4. Still lost by 3 wickets.

Pat Cummins, SRH skipper, heads home now for a final back scan. Due back April 17. Ishan Kishan takes interim charge.

KKR's attack keeps getting hammered by injuries. Early-season woes pile up. Rain wiped out the PBKS clash, leaving vice-captain Rinku to shoulder more leadership in the chaos.