IPL 2025 Orange And Purple Cap Winners Fail To Find A Place In India's Asia Cup Squad
GT's B Sai Sudharsan won the Orange Cap in IPL 2025 for scoring 759 runs in 15 matches, and his teammate Prasidh Krishna won the Purple Cap for taking 25 wickets.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced India's Asia Cup 2025 squad on Tuesday, August 19. In the 15-member squad picked up for the premier continental event, Shubman Gill returned as vice-captain along with Jasprit Bumrah and Kuldeep Yadav, who last played a T20I match in Barbados on June 29, 2024, during the T20 World Cup final. But there was no place for Gill's Gujarat Titans teammates B Sai Sudharsan and Prasidh Krishna.
Sai Sudharsan and Krishna made headlines with their performances in IPL 2025 and won the Orange Cap and Purple Cap, respectively.
They both were reportedly in contention for a place in the squad but missed out.
Sai Sudharsan, who amassed a total of 759 runs in 15 IPL matches this year, last played a T20I against Zimbabwe in Harare on July 7, 2024, but in that contest he didn't get a chance to bat.
On the other hand, Krishna's last T20I match for India was against Australia in Guwahati on November 28, 2023. In the 2025 edition of the world's richest franchise cricket league, Krishna played 15 matches for Gujarat Titans and accounted for the dismissal of 25 batters.
Most wickets in IPL 2025 (Indian bowlers)
In IPL 2025, apart from Sudharsan and Krishna, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Prabhsimran Singh scored more than 500 runs, and Sai Kishore, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Krunal Pandya, Vaibhav Arora, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal, Harshal Patel and Khaleel Ahmed dismissed at least 15 batters each, but they were also ignored by the Ajit Agarkar-led selection committee.
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