IPL playerAustralia2021 to 2026
Tim David
On scorecards: TH David · Right-hand bat
Tim David, a batter, has played six IPL seasons for two franchises. Two titles came along the way.
The arrival
Tim David's first IPL season was 2021, with Royal Challengers Bangalore, a signing made outside the auction.
That first season brought 1 match and 1 run. The best was still to come.
The peak
The high point with the bat was 2026, for Royal Challengers Bengaluru: 305 runs at an average of 33.9, striking at 188.3 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 156.5, with 1 fifty, and a highest score of 70 not out. Royal Challengers Bengaluru won the title that year.
Measured against the league around it, though, the most destructive season was 2022: 186 runs at a strike rate of 216.3, 82 runs per hundred balls quicker than the IPL as a whole that year.
Franchise by franchise
2021, Royal Challengers Bangalore. 1 match and 1 run.
2022 to 2024, Mumbai Indians. Bought at the 2022 auction for ₹8.25 cr. 37 matches and 658 runs.
2025 to 2026, Royal Challengers Bengaluru, second time round. Bought at the 2025 auction for ₹3 cr. 28 matches and 492 runs; champions in 2025 and 2026.
3 spells with two franchises in all. The longest was with Mumbai Indians, 2022 to 2024.
How the runs came
Across the career, Tim David has struck at 177.1. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 148.2, so Tim David has scored about 29 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 70% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 76 fours and 83 sixes.
The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 29.4% of the balls Tim David faced were dot balls, a lower share than 96% of the 140 batters who have faced 500 balls or more in the IPL. A six came every 7.8 balls, the 2nd-best rate in that group, and a four every 8.6.
The fielding record: 32 catches and 4 run-outs.
At the auction
Tim David has gone under the hammer three times, bought twice and left unsold once. The highest price was ₹8.25 cr, paid by Mumbai Indians in 2022, more than 20 times the base price. The market cooled over time: the last purchase, in 2025, cost ₹3 cr. Unsold in 2021, Tim David was bought in 2022 by Mumbai Indians.
Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.
Where it stands
Tim David has made 66 IPL appearances, the latest for Royal Challengers Bengaluru in 2026, and has won 3 player-of-the-match awards.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 33.3 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2022 | Mumbai Indians | 8 | 186 | 46 | 37.2 | 216.3 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 6 | 1 | |
| 2023 | Mumbai Indians | 16 | 231 | 45* | 25.7 | 158.2 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 10 | ||
| 2024 | Mumbai Indians | 13 | 241 | 45* | 30.1 | 158.6 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 6 | ||
| 2025 | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 12 | 187 | 50* | 62.3 | 185.2 | 1/0 | – | – | – | 7 | 1 | Champions |
| 2026 | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 16 | 305 | 70* | 33.9 | 188.3 | 1/0 | 0 | 18.00 | - | 3 | 1 | Champions |
Franchise journey
- Royal Challengers Bangalore: 2021
- Mumbai Indians: 2022 to 2024
- Royal Challengers Bengaluru: 2025 to 2026
Ball-by-ball detail
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Dot balls faced | 29.4% |
| Balls per four | 8.6 |
| Balls per six | 7.8 |
| Dot balls bowled | 16.7% |
| Balls per wicket | 6 |
| Catches | 32 |
| Run-outs | 4 |
| Stumpings | 0 |
At the auction
| Auction | Set | Base price | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | – | ₹20 lakh | Unsold |
| 2022 | UAL3 | ₹40 lakh | Sold to Mumbai Indians for ₹8.25 cr |
| 2025 | ACC | ₹2 cr | Sold to Royal Challengers Bengaluru for ₹3 cr |
Sources
- CricArcade IPL season statistics
- CricArcade IPL auction archive
- Kaggle IPL Complete Match Dataset 2008-2026, ball-by-ball, cross-checked against Cricsheet