India, April 24 -- Virat Kohli jumped from the eighth spot to second in the IPL 2025 Orange Cap list with a sublime knock against the Rajasthan Royals at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. The Royal Challengers Bengaluru opener hit 70 off 42 balls on a pitch that offered plenty of steep bounce to the fast bowlers. Kohli's half-century, his fifth in the current season, took his total tally to 392 runs in nine matches. Kohli is only behind Gujarat Titans youngster Sai Sudharan, who has scored 417 runs in eight matches to hold the Orange Cap firmly.

Kohli leapfrogged KL Rahul, Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Jos Buttler, Nicholas Pooran and Suryakumar Yadav with that one 70-run knock against RR on Thursday.

So good was Kohli's innings th...