Rain cut Tuesday night’s game in Guwahati to 11 overs a side, yet Rajasthan Royals still found enough time to beat Mumbai Indians and move to the summit of IPL 2026. The shortened contest also shuffled the tournament’s individual leaderboards, with Yashasvi Jaiswal now front-running the batting charts and Ravi Bishnoi edging ahead among the bowlers.
Orange Cap – Jaiswal in front
Jaiswal’s unbeaten 77 from 32 deliveries pushed his season tally to 170 runs in just three knocks – he has been dismissed only once. The left-hander overtook Delhi Capitals’ Sameer Rizvi (160) by ten runs and did so at a strike rate north of 200. Former Australia captain Aaron Finch, speaking on television duty, summed up the innings neatly: “Jaiswal special because he watches the ball”.
Rizvi remains second after posting the season’s highest individual score so far, 90 against the same Mumbai attack a few days earlier. Six other batters have already crossed 100 runs, with Heinrich Klaasen (Sunrisers Hyderabad), Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (Royals) and Rohit Sharma (Mumbai) rounding out the early top five.
Purple Cap – Bishnoi pulls away
Leg-spinner Bishnoi took 2 for 25 from his two overs to move to seven wickets overall, adding to the 4 for 41 he claimed against Gujarat Titans last week. The haul nudged him clear of a four-way logjam on five wickets that features Vijaykumar Vyshak (Punjab Kings), Anshul Kamboj (Chennai Super Kings), Nandre Burger (Royals) and Jacob Duffy (Royal Challengers Bengaluru).
Analysing Bishnoi’s form on the broadcast, former fast bowler Dale Steyn noted that the spinner is “getting more bite from a slightly higher release”, a tweak that appears to be unsettling batters in the powerplay as well as at the death.
Other numbers to watch
• Heinrich Klaasen leads the six-hitting list with 12.
• Punjab Kings’ left-armer Arshdeep Singh owns the best economy rate so far, conceding just 6.20 an over.
• Vyshak’s strike rate of one wicket every 9.6 balls is the quickest in the competition after week two.
With the table tight and another round of fixtures looming, the individual races for the Orange and Purple Caps already feel relevant. They will, of course, mean little if the holders’ sides do not stay in the qualifying places – a point both Jaiswal and Bishnoi mentioned post-match, preferring points to personal prizes.
