DUBAI – Left-han­ders Shim­ron Het­my­er and Nicholas Pooran both failed while seam­er Shel­don Cot­trell shone as Del­hi Cap­i­tals edged Kings XI Pun­jab in a dra­mat­ic tied con­test de­ter­mined by the su­per-over at the Dubai In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Sta­di­um in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates,yes­ter­day.

Sent in, Del­hi notched 157 for eight off their 20 overs with Aus­tralian Mar­cus Stoi­nis top-scor­ing with a whirl­wind 53 from 21 balls and cap­tain Shreyas Iy­er stroking a pa­tient 39 from 32 de­liv­er­ies.

Het­my­er, in his first in­nings for the Cap­i­tals, man­aged on­ly sev­en while Cot­trell proved su­perb with two for 24 from four overs.

In re­ply, Pooran per­ished with­out scor­ing but open­er Mayank Agar­w­al smashed 89 from 60 balls be­fore be­com­ing one of two wick­ets to fall to the last two de­liv­er­ies of the in­nings with a sin­gle run re­quired for vic­to­ry.

Pooran then failed again in the su­per-over, one of two wick­ets to go down as Kings XI man­aged on­ly two runs, paving the way for Rishabh Pant to eas­i­ly put Del­hi past their tar­get with three balls re­main­ing.

Het­my­er had ear­li­er joined open­ers Prithvi Shaw (5) and Shikhar Dhawan (0) with sin­gle fig­ure scores as Del­hi slumped to 13 for three at the end of the fourth over.

Iy­er and Pant, who made 31, then com­bined in a 73-run fourth wick­et stand to sta­bilise the in­nings be­fore Sto­nis ar­rived in the 14th over to blast sev­en fours and three six­es and hand Del­hi a strong fin­ish.

Cot­trell’s new-ball part­ner, Mo­hammed Sha­mi, fin­ished with three for 15 from four miser­ly overs.

Agar­w­al gave his side a sol­id start to their run chase, putting on 30 for the first wick­et with cap­tain KL Rahul (21) be­fore five wick­ets tum­bled for 25 runs in the space of 34 de­liv­er­ies to leave the Kings XI in­nings in strife.

Pooran, who struck his maid­en Twen­ty20 hun­dred in the Caribbean Pre­mier League which fin­ished ear­li­er this month, was third out in the sixth over bowled by off-spin­ner Ravi Ash­win af­ter fac­ing on­ly three de­liv­er­ies.

Agar­w­al, who count­ed sev­en fours and four six­es, came to his side’s res­cue by an­chor­ing a sixth wick­et stand with Kr­ish­nap­pa Gowtham (20) worth 46 and a sub­se­quent sev­enth wick­et part­ner­ship with Bar­ba­dos-born Eng­land all-rounder Chris Jor­dan (5) worth 56.

With 13 runs need­ed from the fi­nal over, Agar­w­al lashed 12 from the first three de­liv­er­ies be­fore Del­hi hit back spec­tac­u­lar­ly.

CMC

Scores:

Del­hi Cap­i­tals 157 for 8 (M Stoi­nis 53, S Iy­er 39, R Pant 31, M Sha­mi 3-15, Shel­don Cot­trell 2-24) vs Kings XI Pun­jab 157 for 8 (M Agar­w­al 89, R Ash­win 2-2, K Raba­da 2-28, M Stoi­nis 2-29). Cap­i­tals won via Su­per Over.