IPL 2025 Points Table, Orange Cap, Purple Cap: Shubman Gill-Led GT Extend Lead, KKR's Playoff Hopes Fading

Shubman Gill slammed 90 runs off just 55 balls to help Gujarat Titans (GT) extend their lead at the top of the IPL 2025 points table, as they defeated Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by 39 runs. GT were clearly the better side in all three facets of the game, and have now become the first team to hit 12 points this season. KKR, on the other hand, remain in seventh spot, having lost five of their eight games. They are now four points away from the playoffs, and need a string of wins to qualify.

Gill became the seventh batter to cross 300 runs in IPL 2025, but it is opening partner B Sai Sudharsan who has retaken the Orange Cap. He became the first batter to cross 400 runs this season, and now sits on 417 after his knock of 52. GT also lead the Purple Cap standings thanks to pacer Prasidh Krishna, who now has 16 wickets, four more than anyone else. He took two wickets against KKR.

Gill's innings, adorned with 10 fours and three sixes, along with Sai Sudharsan's 36-ball 52, his fifth fifty in six matches, that made him the first player this season to surpass 400 runs to reclaim the Orange Cap, laid the foundation for GT's total of 198 for 3 after KKR opted to bowl on tacky track.

The total, which was well calculated and strategised by GT, proved more than enough as GT bowlers led brilliantly by Rashid Khan and Prasidh Krishna's identical figures of 2/25 restricted KKR to 159 for 8.

It was yet another low for the defending champions after their horror show of 95 all out while chasing 112 in the last match as their batting looked woefully out of depth and succumbed to their third defeat in four matches at home, and fifth overall from eight games.

For GT, this victory marked their sixth win in eight matches, consolidating their