Shubman Gill won the Orange Cap in IPL 2023 (Pic Credit: Sportzpics)
Shubman Gill was trailing in the race for the Orange Cap till Qualifier 2, where he set the stage on fire with a blistering century to overtake Faf du Plessis.
Gujarat Titans opener Shubman Gill won the Indian Premier League 2023 Orange Cap after a memorable season with the bat. Shubman scored 890 runs in 17 matches at an average of 59.44 in the 2023 edition of the cash-rich league. The 23-year-old made the season his own with four fifties and three hundreds.
Shubman scored 39 in the final of IPL 2023 but faced the loss as Chennai Super Kings won the rain-affected clash by 5 wickets to clinch their fifth IPL title.
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Shubman was trailing in the race for the Orange Cap till Qualifier 2 where he set the platform on fire with a brilliant century. The GT opener played a brilliant knock of 129 against Mumbai Indians and went past Faf du Plessis in the tally. The stylish opener became the second Indian batsman to score three hundreds in a single IPL season as batting maestro Virat Kohli had earlier scored four in the 2016 edition.
However, Gill fell just short of Virat Kohli’s all-time highest scoring record in IPL history as the Royal Challengers Bangalore talisman scored an incredible 973 runs for RCB in a single campaign in 2016.
He also scored back-to-back hundreds in the league stage against Sunrisers Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bangalore. The 23-year-old was in incredible form ahead of IPL 2023 in Indian colors and he followed it up in the cash-rich league and ended the season as the best batsman.
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While Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Faf du Plessis finished second with 730 runs in 14 matches. However, he failed to take his team to the playoffs as once again RCB lacked collective efforts to get over the line. Apart from Faf, Virat Kohli also had an incredible season with the bat as he scored 639 runs in 14 matches which included two centuries and six half-centuries.
Devon Conway of Chennai Super Kings also finished third with 672 runs in 16 matches at an average of 51.69. He scored consistently well throughout the season and scored 6 half-centuries.
