Vaibhav Sooryavanshi capped off his record-breaking IPL 2026 campaign by winning the Orange Cap and Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards after finishing as the tournament’s leading run-scorer.
At just 15 years and 65 days old, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi became the youngest to win the IPL Orange Cap, overtaking Sai Sudharsan, who won the IPL Orange Cap at the age of 23 years and 237 days last year.
The Rajasthan Royals opener amassed 776 runs in 16 matches in IPL 2026 at an astonishing strike rate of 237.30, ending the season ahead of Gujarat Titans duo Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan in the run-scoring charts.
He is also the second RR player to ever win the Orange Cap. Jos Buttler managed the feat back in 2022.
IPL 2026 top run-scorers
Player | Runs | Matches | Strike Rate |
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (RR) | 776 | 16 | 237.30 |
Shubman Gill (GT) | 732 | 16 | 163.02 |
Sai Sudharsan (GT) | 722 | 17 | 157.98 |
Virat Kohli (RCB) | 675 | 16 | 165.84 |
Besides the big two, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi also bagged the Super Striker of the Season, Emerging Player of the Season and Super Sixes of the Season awards at the final presentation ceremony which followed the IPL 2026 final on Sunday.
The teenager had also bagged the Super Striker award last season for his astonishing strike rate of 206.55. He surpassed it this time out.
Sooryavanshi’s extraordinary season featured a record 72 sixes, a blistering 36-ball century against Sunrisers Hyderabad and a string of breathtaking knocks that powered Rajasthan Royals into the playoffs.
The southpaw also rewrote IPL history during the campaign by becoming the fastest batter to reach 1000 IPL runs in terms of balls faced, getting there in just 440 deliveries and surpassing Andre Russell’s previous record.
He also became the first player to score 500 powerplay runs in a single IPL season and the first batter to achieve the feat in any T20 tournament.
Sooryavanshi saved some of his finest performances for the playoffs. He hammered 97 off 29 balls against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Eliminator before following it up with a sensational 96 off 47 balls against Gujarat Titans in Qualifier 2.
His remarkable run also saw him become the highest-scoring uncapped player in a single IPL season, while he additionally broke Chris Gayle’s long-standing record for most sixes in an IPL edition.
Gill and Sudharsan entered the IPL 2026 final with an outside chance of overtaking the Rajasthan Royals opener in the Orange Cap race, but neither managed to surpass his tally, confirming Sooryavanshi as the tournament’s highest run-scorer.
