Singapore is the latest country to have representation in league as T20 sensation Tim David joins RCB

The second stage of the 14th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) will feature a cricketer from Singapore for the first time, as Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) have attracted freelance T20 sensation Tim David, who has made a name for himself in various leagues around the world.

While he is of Australian descent, the 6 feet 5 inch tall David currently plays international cricket for Singapore and he brings with him a novelty factor in Virat Kohli’s team.

Since ICC has accorded T20 International status to all its 106 member nations, David has played 14 T20 Internationals with 558 runs in his kitty at a strike rate of 158-plus.

Overall, he has played 49 T20 games, factoring in his appearances in the Big Bash League and Pakistan Super League with a tally of 1,171 runs at a strike rate of 155-plus.

In BBL, he has played for Hobart Hurricanes and Perth Scorchers while he had recently scored two List A hundreds in the Royal London Cup for Surrey, including a career-best 140 against Warwickshire.

In fact, the 25-year-old David’s father Rod David is also an ex-Singapore international and represented the country in the 1997 ICC World Cup qualifier, a tournament that was won by Bangladesh.

While David by birth became a Singapore passport holder, the family migrated back to Australia and he grew up in Perth. His father, apart from being an ex Singapore international, is also an engineer.

🔊 ANNOUNCEMENT 🔊

Tim David is no stranger to the T20 format! After tasting success in T20 leagues around the world, hard hitting batsman & a handy bowler – Tim David – replaces Finn Allen at RCB for the remainder of the season.#PlayBold #IPL2021 #NowAChallenger pic.twitter.com/d2KlnbnWtX

— Royal Challengers Bangalore (@RCBTweets) August 21, 2021

is expected that AB de Villiers and Kyle Jamieson will be certainties in RCB’s playing XI while Dan Christian also has a good chance of making it. However Kohli will not be able to ignore that David has already hit 77 sixes in 64 senior-level white-ball games including T20 and List A.

David however is not the first cricketer from an associate nation to play in the IPL as Netherlands’ Ryan ten Doeschate and Dirk Nannes (who also played for Australia) have played for IPL franchise.

The remainder of the IPL-14 will begin on 19 September in the UAE.