IPL Orange Cap Holder 2018: Highest Run Scorers: The 11th season of Indian Premier League is going to start in April 2018. Since the beginning of IPL, it used to hold in April and last until May. This would be the same in this season as well. However, the popularity of IPL is getting heavier day by day and now, the competition is regarded as the best and largest short form league cricket tournament in the world. The organizers of IPL used to award huge amount to the players and so, IPL becomes exciting than rest of the league tournament.
IPL Orange Cap Holder 2018: However, every year a plenty of overseas players used to participate here and most of them were the famous and top-rated players. One thing was common about all of them that they were T20 experts. They impressed the audience by batting and bowling destructively. Some of them succeeded to score huge runs in total and rest were failed. But, Indian local batsmen also have the ability to dominate any kind of bowlers. However, as we know that, team India has the best batting side in the world which team is led by Virat Kohli.
Basically, Indian local batsmen used to score a plenty of runs in every season of IPL. Among them, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina and some others batsmen used to be placed on the top list. Besides, some overseas batsmen like Villiers, Gayle, Lynn are also regarded as the top batsmen in IPL. They have all the ability to score a large run in IPL. Is would be very hard to say the name of the top scorer of the upcoming season of IPL 2018. But, above listed players would be on the list. Here we present the top scorer list in IPL 2017 below.
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If we look to the previous statistics of top runs score in IPL, Virat Kohli is still in the top position who played total 131 innings since the beginning of IPL 2008 and scored 4110 runs. He is currently playing for RCB. Suresh Raina is in second position who scored 4098 runs who started with CSK since the beginning of IPL but from last season, he joined to the Gujarat Lions after suspended CSK for two seasons. He played 143 innings totally. However, Rohit Sharma is in 3rd position who played for almost two teams named DC and Mumbai Indians. He scored 3874 runs so far. Gautam Gambhir and Robin Uthappa are in 4th and 5th position respectively by scoring 3634 and 3390 runs. Here we provide below the complete statistics of previous top scorers below.
# Top Runs Scorers (Past Season):
| Position | Player | Score | Franchise | Inns |
| 1st | Virat Kohli | 4110 | RCB | 131 |
| 2nd | Suresh Raina | 4098 | CSK | 143 |
| 3rd | Rohit Sharma | 3874 | DC, MI | 138 |
| 4th | Gautam Gambhir | 3634 | DD, KKR | 131 |
| 5th | Robin Uthappa | 3390 | KKR, MI, PWI, RCB | 130 |
However, there are a number of talented foreign and local batsmen are going to compete in the upcoming season of Indian Premier League along with above-listed batsmen and so, the competition would be a lot tougher than before.