IPL Orange Cap 2019: David Warner finishes IPL 12 with most runs

Despite leaving the IPL on April 30, Warner comfortably finished with the most runs.

Australia opener David Warner secured the Orange Cap for most runs in IPL 2019 by a safe distance, despite having not played a match since April 29 when he left Sunrisers Hyderabad to join his World Cup team-mates for a pre-tournament training camp in Brisbane.

During his comeback to the IPL after serving his sentence for ball-tampering in South Africa last year, Warner amassed 692 runs at an average of 69.2 and strike-rate of 143.86 for SRH before returning home. In his final match of IPL 2019, Warner’s 81 off 56 balls in Sunrisers’ big win over Kings XI Punjab was his ninth 50-plus score of the season.

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KL Rahul finished second on the Orange Cap table with 593 runs for Kings XI Punjab, followed by Mumbai Indians’ wicketkeeper-batsman Quinton de Kock at third with 529 runs.

In the Purple Cap table for most wickets in IPL 2019, Imran Tahir finished on top with 26 wickets for runners-up Chennai Super Kings.

Tahir, 40, overtook Delhi Capitals’ strike bowler Kagiso Rabada’s tally of 25 wickets during the final against Mumbai Indians.