Father Rod David is Australian but Tim David was born in Singapore. Rod David became a resident of Singapore in the 1990s for professional work. In addition to work, Rod also played for the Singapore national team. The Australian played for Singapore in the 1997 ICC Trophy. He gave the team victory with 3 wickets for 19 runs in 10 overs against Malaysia.

Later, Rod returned home with his son David. Settled in Western Australia, David learned to play cricket there on his father’s wish and turned himself into a batter. And this explosive batter got a place in the Australian team, but David’s international career started for Singapore.

The call came to play for Singapore based on birth identity. He took it and made his T20 debut against Qatar in 2019. David scored 558 runs at an average of 46.50 and a strike rate of 158.52 after playing 12 T20s for the country. Meanwhile, leg-spinner Mitchell Swepson has been dropped from the World Cup team due to giving place to David.

Leg-spinner Adam Zampa and left-arm spinner Ashton Agar have been kept in the team to show their magic on the familiar home pitch. That is why the selectors felt that there is no need for a third spinner in Australian conditions. Apart from Mitchell, there were no changes to the T20 World Cup-winning team in the United Arab Emirates last year.

The question may arise – Why did the Aussie selectors add David directly to the World Cup team without playing a single international match for Australia? David is a great performer in franchise T20 cricket. In the last IPL auction, Mumbai Indians took him to the team for an eye-catching amount of 8 crores 25 lakh rupees (about 1.5 million Australian dollars).

Apart from this, David has played well in Pakistan and West Indies franchise league PCL and CPL. He also got runs in T20 Blast and Big Bash, now playing in England’s The Hundred. Who would not want to take such a consistent performer in the small version of cricket?
In total, Tim David has played 122 T20s so far. 2 thousand 640 runs at an average of 32.19, a strike rate of 164.17. The 6ft 5in tall fit batsman has hit 160 sixes so far. He is a part-time spin bowler.