IPL 2026 points table: Team rankings and key stats after GT vs MI match

Shreyas Iyer-led Punjab Kings continue to lead the points table in IPL 2026 with their six-match unbeaten run

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), with the help of Abhishek Sharma’s brilliant innings of 135 not out off 68 balls, beat Delhi Capitals (DC) by 47 runs in match 31 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium to secure their third straight win of the season.

 

SRH, with the win, have jumped to the third spot in the points table, while DC are forced to stay just outside the top four at the number five spot.

 

Meanwhile, at the moment in the points table, the only undefeated team of the season, Punjab Kings (PBKS), continue to lead with 11 points from six games. Defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), and inaugural champions Rajasthan Royals (RR) are the next three teams in the table, with eight points each.

 

 

Delhi Capitals (DC) and Gujarat Titans (GT), with six points each, are fifth and sixth respectively due to net run rate difference.

 

Five-time champions Mumbai Indians (MI) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) are seventh and eighth in the table with four points each from six games.

 

Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) have now dropped down to the number nine spot, while Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) are back at the bottom of the table despite their first win of the season on Sunday.

 

 

IPL 2026 updated points table:

 

Rank	Team	M	W	L	T	NR	PTS	NRR
1	Punjab Kings	6	5	0	0	1	11	1.42
2	Royal Challengers Bengaluru	6	4	2	0	0	8	1.171
3	Sunrisers Hyderabad	7	4	3	0	0	8	0.82
4	Rajasthan Royals	6	4	2	0	0	8	0.599
5	Delhi Capitals	6	3	3	0	0	6	-0.13
6	Gujarat Titans	6	3	3	0	0	6	-0.821
7	Mumbai Indians	6	2	4	0	0	4	0.067
8	Chennai Super Kings	6	2	4	0	0	4	-0.78
9	Lucknow Super Giants	6	2	4	0	0	4	-1.173
10	Kolkata Knight Riders	7	1	5	0	1	3	-0.879

IPL 2026: Orange Cap leaderboard

SRH’s Abhishek Sharma, with his brilliant ton against DC, has taken his total runs tally in IPL 2026 to 323 runs and is now leading the race for the Orange Cap. He is followed closely by his teammate Heinrich Klaasen (320 runs) and GT skipper Shubman Gill (265 runs) at second and third spot.

 

IPL 2026: Top ten run scorers

 

Rank	Player	Team	Mat	Inns	Runs	HS	100	50
1	Abhishek Sharma	SRH	7*	7	323	135*	1	2
2	H Klaasen	SRH	7*	7	320	62	0	3
3	Shubman Gill	GT	5	5	265	86	0	3
4	V Kohli	RCB	6	6	247	69*	0	2
5	V Sooryavanshi	RR	6	6	246	78	0	2
6	Ishan Kishan	SRH	7*	7	238	91	0	2
7	RM Patidar	RCB	6	6	230	63	0	2
8	CPL Connolly	PBKS	6	5	223	87	0	2
9	YBK Jaiswal	RR	6	6	223	77*	0	2
10	P Arya	PBKS	5	5	211	93	0	2
11	Prabhsimran Singh	PBKS	6	5	211	80*	0	2

IPL 2026: Purple Cap leaderboard

Despite CSK’s lacklustre run in IPL 2026 so far, their pacer Anshul Kamboj, with 13 wickets in six matches, is leading the Purple Cap leaderboard. He is followed closely by the previous edition’s Purple Cap winner, GT’s Prasidh Krishna (12 wickets), and LSG pacer Prince Yadav (11 wickets) at second and third spots.

 

IPL 2026: Top ten wicket takers

 

PLAYER	MATCHES	WKTS	Avg	4-FERS	5-FERS
Anshul Kamboj	6	13	16.23	0	0
Prince Yadav	6	11	17.18	0	0
Prasidh Krishna	5	11	16.73	1	0
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	6	10	20	0	0
Ravi Bishnoi	6	10	19	1	0
Jofra Archer	6	8	22.38	0	0
Krunal Pandya	6	8	22.5	0	0
Kartik Tyagi	7	8	27.38	0	0
Jamie Overton	5	8	17.88	1	0
Eshan Malinga	6	8	23.13	0	0
Lungi Ngidi	5	7	23.57	0	0
Kagiso Rabada	5	7	27.29	0	0
Vaibhav Arora	7	7	37.71	0	0
Sunil Narine	6	6	26.17	0	0
Rashid Khan	5	6	25.67	0	0