The 28th match of IPL 2026 is to be held between Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals at Eden Gardens. In this match, KKR will be seen making another attempt to open its winning account this season. Whereas Rajasthan team is back on the winning track again. But amidst all this, keep an eye on Vaibhav Suryavanshi, who can be seen leaving behind many batsmen of the world on the pitch of Eden Gardens. Vaibhav has a chance to make a comeback and become number 1 again.

Vaibhav Suryavanshi out of top 10

Vaibhav Suryavanshi is currently out of the top 10 in the run race in IPL 2026.

His current ranking is 11th with 200 runs in 5 innings played so far. But, if he sets his mark against KKR at Kolkata Eden Gardens, then this one innings can make him number one again. Now the question is, in terms of most runs or in other words, how many runs is the gap between the number one batsman of IPL 2026 and Vaibhav Suryavanshi standing at number 11 in the Orange Cap race?

These 10 batsmen are ahead of Vaibhav Suryavanshi

Heinrich Klaasen currently has the most runs in IPL 2026.

He has scored 283 runs in 6 innings of 6 matches. After Classen, Shubman Gill is in second place, who has scored 251 runs in only 4 innings. Virat Kohli is third in the list, he has scored 247 runs in 6 innings. Rajat Patidar is at fourth position after scoring 230 runs in 6 innings. Apart from this, he is also the batsman who has hit the maximum number of 22 sixes in IPL 2026. Ishan Kishan has scored 213 runs in 6 innings while Prabhsimran Singh has scored 211 runs in 4 innings of 5 matches. Shreyas Iyer has also scored 203 runs in 4 innings of 5 matches while Phil Salt has scored 202 runs in 6 innings of 6 matches. Ayush Mhatre scored 201 runs in 6 innings of 6 matches. Whereas Jos Buttler has scored the same number of runs in 5 innings.

Will become number 1 after scoring 84 runs against KKR

Vaibhav Suryavanshi's number comes after these 10 batsmen. But he can leave all this behind against KKR. To do this, Vaibhav Suryavanshi will have to score 84 runs in his sixth inning of IPL 2026. Apart from this, if he hits 6 sixes while scoring these runs, then he will leave Rajat Patidar behind and become the batsman who has hit the most sixes in this season.

Vaibhav currently has 18 sixes.