Ashutosh impact seals DC win after Pant's costly miss

The batter smashed an unbeaten 66 off 31 balls to drag a shaky DC to a one-wicket win in Visakhapatnam

- Samreen Razzaqui

NEW DELHI: It isn't often that a Mitchell Marsh-Nicholas Pooran batting show goes to vain. However, Ashutosh Sharma provided the real impact, ensuring it was just the night to dull their fireworks. Sharma's unbeaten 31-ball 66 ensured Delhi Capitals had a night to remember, against the odds, leading them to a one-wicket victory with three balls to spare against Lucknow Super Giants.

The Marsh (72)-Pooran (75) blitz got LSG off to a great going, but they were pulled back with six of the last seven batters contributing 13 runs in all as they were restricted to 201/8 in the match played in Visakhapatnam, DC's second home venue. Chasing 210, Capitals were rocked early by Shardul Thakur (2/19) and M Siddharth (2/39), leaving them reeling at 7/3. It was hard to give them a chance at that stage, but Faf du Plessis (29) and Axar Patel (22) launched a much-needed counterattack to wrest back some momentum and steady the innings.