3 Batters Who Can Win Orange Cap In IPL 2025

The Orange Cap is awarded to the leading run-scorer in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Shaun Marsh was the first-ever player to win the coveted cap in 2008, as he finished with 616 runs in the season. 

Since then, only three batters have won the cap in multiple seasons and that small list includes bonafide IPL greats Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli and David Warner. 

Kohli won the Orange Cap in 2024 as well. Let’s see who are the strongest contestants for one of the biggest prizes in the world’s biggest T20 league. 

Shubman Gill

Gill, who won the Orange Cap in 2023 with 890 runs for the Gujarat Titans, has a point to prove this season. Despite being considered as one of the best Indian batters of this current generation, he is not a part of India’s T20I side. 

With Abhishek Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Sanju Samson already there in the top order, he would find it hard to make a spot in the top order unless he has a huge season with the bat and also scores runs at a strike rate touching 150 or above. 

India’s T20I side is arguably the toughest international side to break into at the moment, and Gill has to prove his credentials as a dynamic top order batter. We all know how Gill performs when there’s a point to prove. 

Tilak Varma 

While Varma hasn’t won the coveted cap so far in his career, his batting graph has seen scintillating rise in the last few years. He is India’s designated number three in the T20I side and has already hit two centuries in the format. 

This time he’ll be amidst a batting lineup where the likes of Rohit Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav are not in the best touch in the format due to different reasons, and the Mumbai Indians top order’s responsibility would lie on Varma’s shoulder. 

If Tilak has a great season, MI will have one too. And if that happens, the Orange Cap won’t be far from his head. 

Virat Kohli 

You can take Kohli out of the format, but you can’t take his class out of him. Kohli has been IPL’s most prolific run scorer and Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s talisman. 

He has won the Orange Cap twice already, and this time, with him having retired from the international format, he can play his own game at his own pace without any pressure to conform to a certain style. Kohli had a 741 run season in 2024 that won him the Orange cap, and helped RCB reach the knockouts. 

Kohli can still do that. RCB’s batting needs him. And if he arrives with a bang, we know even SKY is not Kohli’s limit.