After Ashutosh Sharma played an incredible innings, Delhi Capitals defeated Lucknow Super Giants by 1 wicket in Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket on Monday.

Delhi, who got a target of 210 runs, scored 65 runs in 7 overs, but had already lost Jack Fraser McGrook (1), Abhishek Porel (0), Sameer Rizvi (4), captain Akshar Patel (22) and Faf du Plessis (29). Tristan Stubbs scored 34 runs off 22 balls with 1 four and 3 sixes.

After Ashutosh and Vipraj Nigam, who came as 'impact players', added 55 runs in 22 balls in the seventh wicket, Delhi made a decent comeback. Nigam scored 39 runs with 5 fours and 2 sixes while playing 15 balls. Mitchell Starc 2 and Kuldeep Yadav were dismissed for 4 runs. After Ashutosh scored 12 runs in the last 3 balls of the 19th over, Delhi needed 6 runs in the last over to win.

Mohit Sharma, who bowled the first ball of the last over, took 1 run in the second ball and gave a strike to Ashutosh. After Ashutosh hit a straight six in the third ball, Delhi scored 212 runs in 3 balls. Player of the match Ashutosh played 31 balls and scored 66 runs by hitting 5 fours and a six.

Supporters watching the live broadcast between Delhi Capitals and Lucknow Super Giants from Kantipur Max on Monday at Hotel Pauwa in Bhairahawa. 

Earlier, Lucknow lost 8 wickets and scored 209 runs. While Mitchell Marsh and Nicholas Puran scored a total of 147 runs off 66 balls, the rest of the Lucknow team could only score 55 runs off 55 balls. Lucknow, who showed the possibility of making a score above 250 at one time, was stopped by Delhi with excellent bowling .

After Aiden Markram was dismissed for 15 runs off 13 balls, the pair of Marsh and Puran froze . Marsh scored 72 off 36 balls with the help of 6 fours and sixes and Pooran scored 73 runs off 30 balls with the help of 6 fours and 7 sixes. Skipper Rishabh Pant, who left Delhi and reached Lucknow, got out for zero after playing 6 balls. David Miller, who hit a six and a four in the last 2 balls of the innings, remained unbeaten on 27 runs off 19 balls.