David Warner still sits on top of the table of the leading run-scorers in IPL 2019. However, Kings XI Punjab’s Chris Gayle (79 in 47 balls) came within 6 runs of Warner’s 85. Later at night, Jos Buttler (69 in 43) of Rajasthan Royals threatened to get there before he was Mankaded by Punjab captain R Ashwin.
Sarfaraz Khan of Punjab was the only other batsman from Monday night to break it to the list of top ten run-getters. Here is the list, as it stands.
Player | Team | R | SR | 6s |
David Warner | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 85 | 160.37 | 3 |
Chris Gayle | Kings XI Punjab | 79 | 168.08 | 4 |
Rishabh Pant | Delhi Capitals | 78 | 288.88 | 7 |
Jos Buttler | Rajasthan Royals | 69 | 160.46 | 2 |
Nitish Rana | Kolkata Knight Riders | 68 | 144.68 | 3 |
Yuvraj Singh | Mumbai Indians | 53 | 151.42 | 3 |
Andre Russell | Kolkata Knight Riders | 49 | 257.89 | 4 |
Colin Ingram | Delhi Capitals | 47 | 146.87 | 1 |
Sarfaraz Khan | Kings XI Punjab | 46 | 158.62 | 1 |
Shikhar Dhawan | Delhi Capitals | 43 | 119.44 | 1 |
Nobody took 3 wickets on Monday night, so the trio of Imran Tahir, Harbhajan Singh, and Mitchell McClenaghan stayed on top of the wickets chart. However, Punjab’s Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Ankit Rajpoot, and Sam Curran took 2 wickets each to enter the top ten, as did Rajasthan’s Ben Stokes.
Here are the leading wicket-takers:
Player | Team | W | Econ |
Imran Tahir | Chennai Super Kings | 3 | 2.25 |
Harbhajan Singh | Chennai Super Kings | 3 | 5.00 |
Mitchell McClenaghan | Mumbai Indians | 3 | 10.00 |
Ravindra Jadeja | Chennai Super Kings | 2 | 3.75 |
Kagiso Rabada | Delhi Capitals | 2 | 5.75 |
Mujeeb Ur Rahman | Kings XI Punjab | 2 | 7.75 |
Ankit Rajpoot | Kings XI Punjab | 2 | 8.25 |
Ishant Sharma | Delhi Capitals | 2 | 8.50 |
Andre Russell | Kolkata Knight Riders | 2 | 10.66 |
Ben Stokes | Rajasthan Royals | 2 | 12.00 |
Sam Curran | Kings XI Punjab | 2 | 13.00 |