Mumbai Indians sealed their third win of the 2017 Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket season on Friday after a rousing revival in the second half of their innings saw the guests beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by four wickets.Virat Kohli scored 62 runs to set the Bangalore hosts on their way to a finish of 142 for five, but that total turned out to be far from the heights Royal Challengers needed to reach in order to see off their enemy's late charge.Royal Challengers failed to hit a single boundary off their last 32 balls, but Mumbai's sluggish start, wherein Parthiv Patel and Jos Buttler were dismissed for a combined five runs, didn't matter in the end.Kieron Pollard inspired the travelling outfit to victory when he arose at sixth in the batting order and boosted their hopes with a triumphant 70 after Mumbai's upper order were decimated in no time.Samuel Badree notched the first hat-trick of the 2017 IPL season and ended up with four wickets, as shared by Broken Cricket:His heroics didn't matter in the end, as Bangalore still ended up on the losing side.Read on as we take a look at the top run-scorers and wicket-takers in the 2017 Indian Premier League season thus far, complete with analysis of the leaders and those closing the gap behind them.RecapFriday's early fixture didn't see any batsman capable of taking the leading run-scorer honour from Kolkata Knight Riders star Gautam Gambhir, whose current total of 167 is enough to keep him in the driver's seat for the Orange Cap.That tally means that after three outings thus far in 2017, Gambhir is averaging a little more than 55 runs per game, and Cricbuzz celebrated as the Indian veteran pulled level in IPL fifties recorded following his side's win over Kings XI Punjab on Thursday:It was in that fixture that Gambhir notched an unbeaten 72not far from half his team's total 171 runs that dayas opposition bowlers failed to dismiss him for the second time in three matches.Nitish Rana managed to score 11 runs off 16 balls in Mumbai's rousing win overRoyal Challengers on Friday, taking his season tally to 140 overall, putting him second in run-scorers for the time being.As for the wicket-takers, Sunrisers Hyderabad showed their fielding might by accounting for the one and two spots in the standings, although it'sBhuvneshwarKumar's total of seven that makes him the standout leader.Team-mate Rashid Khan follows not far behind on six wickets, level with Rising Pune Supergiant starImran Tahir, and the Sunrisers provided footage of Kumar's trio of wickets during Wednesday's defeat to Mumbai:Mumbai maestro Mitchell McClenaghan moved level in joint-fourth place on Friday after taking his fourth and fifth wickets of the season during the Indians' victoryagainst Royal Challengers.The Kiwi was on top of his game and made up for previous errors this season when he turned out in Bangalore, while ESPN Cricinfo lauded the New Zealander's encouraging turnaround:His bowling ultimately helped Mumbai avoid an embarrassingdefeat in the end, and McClenaghan now has the wicket-taker summit in sight, albeit having played a game more than most of his peers.He's now level with Zaheer Khan of the Delhi Daredevils on five wickets apiece, although Khan will be hopeful of moving up the rankings in the near future, considering he's only played just two innings this season.
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