Donald dubs de Villiers as `scariest player on planet`

However, Kings XI eased to victory inside 15 overs courtesy of another Protea, Hashim Amla, who made 57 from 37 deliveries. "She was actually lying next to my boy, sleeping, when I asked for her advice and she had to call back a few minutes later".

Jadhav then produced an excellent innings as he shifted gears from being watchful to hitting a flurry of big shots to the huge cheers of home supporters.

Jadhav also chipped in with 21 runs for the fifth wicket with rookie Vishnu Vinod (9) before Delhi skipper Zaheer Khan put the brakes on the scoring rate with two quick wickets - effected Vinod's run out with Shahbaz Nadeem's throw and induced Jadhav with a slower one only to be caught by Chris Morris at mid-off.

Supergiant lost all of their seven matches while batting first in last year's IPL, but won their opener against Mumbai Indians on Thursday.

Pawan Negi, bowling his first over of the match, defended 19 to win the match for RCB.

"We had our plans". There were stand-and-deliver blows straight down the ground and massive strikes over the leg side off good length deliveries, "He plays these shots with fantastic ease, it's unbelievable", Laxman Sivaramakrishnan said in commentary after one of his maximums.

Tare (18) was beaten for pace by a good length delivery from Tymal Mills as his off-stump went cartwheeling in the fifth over. More than spinners, the fast bowlers would probably have been more effective.

De Villiers came to life in the closing stages, clearing the ropes all around the ground in spectacular fashion to at least give RCB a total to defend.

Sandeep Sharma thought he had foxed de Villers when he saw the South African jumping out and pitched short and wide.de Villiers, nearly magically, shifted his body weight and somehow retained his balance as he got under the ball to direct it over cover-point for one of his nine sixes, a lot of which were slog-sweeps off pacemen. "Because of grass on the pitch we chose to bat first after winning the toss with a hope that the ball will come straight to the bat and we would be able to make a big score", RBC's Stuart Binny, who scored an unbeaten 18, told reporters. On a different day, against a different batsman, things might be different. Pant showed a lot of courage, he has undergone personal trauma, we are all with him. But like I said, he is one of the best batsmen in the world. We tried to execute our plans, but he scored against us.

With two wins out of two matches, KXIP will be looking to carry the momentum forward, "We are very focussed about winning the tournament and we are doing well and hope to continue this way for the rest of the tournament", Sandeep concluded.