Noor Ahmad of CSK is at the top of the Orange and Purple Cap standings.

Noor Ahmad, a left-arm wristspinner for the Chennai Super Kings (CSK), is already leading the IPL 2025 Purple Cap scoreboard with seven wickets after taking 3 for 36 against Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) at Chepauk. The top two players in the Orange Cap standings are Nicholas Pooran and Mitchell Marsh of the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG), while Rachin Ravindra of CSK is the most recent player to make it into the top five.

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He then dismissed Virat Kohli for 31. In order to surpass Shardul Thakur’s score of six, he came back to get Liam Livingstone for ten. Noor was the Player of the Match in the first match against the Mumbai Indians (MI) in Chennai, taking 4 for 18. At the auction, CSK purchased the Afghanistan left-arm wristspinner for INR 10 crore.

With the help of MS Dhoni’s fast stumping, Noor Ahmad dismissed RCB opener Phil Salt for 32 during the match against them.

Second place goes to Shardul Thakur, who has taken six wickets in two games. He defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) on Thursday night with a Player-of-the-Match-winning 4 for 34, dismissing Abhishek Sharma and Ishan Kishan off successive balls in the third over before dismissing Abhinav Manohar and Mohammed Shami. Opening the bowling and dismissing Jake Fraser-McGurk and Abishek Porel in the opening over, Thakur, who replaced Mohsin Khan due to injury, took 2 for 19 in LSG’s debut match against the Delhi Capitals (DC).

With his effort against CSK, Josh Hazlewood of RCB also made it into the top three in the bowling charts. With two early wickets—removing captain Ruturaj Gaikwad for a duck and opener Rahul Tripathi for five—Hazlewood stunned the home team. With figures of 3 for 21, he came back in the 13th over to dismiss Ravindra Jadeja for 25. He got 2 for 22 against the Kolkata Knight Riders in the opening game.

Even though Nicholas Pooran doesn’t “plan to hit sixes,” he has been enjoying himself by hitting them for a while. At IPL 2025, he is also amassing incredible figures as No. 3: 75 from 30 against DC and 70 from 26 against SRH. One batted first, and the other came in second. No one now has a higher strike rate than his 258.91, and he leads the six-hitters’ leaderboard with 13 from two innings.

With 124 runs from two games—72 in 36 against DC and 52 in 31 against SRH—Powellan leads Mitchell Marsh, who bats at the top of the LSG order. Marsh, who has been a batter-only this season due to injury, gives LSG breathing room at the top with his steady runs.

Travis Head is ranked number three because, following an exciting IPL 2024, he shows no signs of stopping. His 67 from 31 balls in the opening match against the Rajasthan Royals (RR) almost shattered the IPL record. His 47 came from 28 balls against LSG.