Tim David stole the thunder from Rajasthan Royals’ centurion Yashasvi Jaiswal in the Indian Premier League on Sunday to take Mumbai Indians to a thrilling win in the historic 1000th IPL match, and the Singapore-born Australian said it was an “amazing feeling” to take his team home.
David (45 not out off 14 balls) smashed three consecutive sixes in the final over as MI successfully chased the 213-run target on the home turf of the Wankhede Stadium for a much-needed six-wicket win.
Mumbai are currently seventh on the points table with four wins in eight matches, same as Royal Challengers Bangalore, who are at No. 6 by virtue of a better net run-rate.
“Yeah, we needed a result. So, it’s an amazing feeling, the crowd was going crazy for us. So when we get up and flying at the Wankhede, there’s no better feeling,” David said at the post-match presentation.
“We’ve probably not played our best game for the last couple of matches. To see how the boys went about it, it’s awesome for us and to see how excited the boys are, it feels really good.”.
David put Trent Boult, Sandeep Sharma, and Jason Holder away whenever they missed their lengths in the end, and the big-hitting Aussie said that the plan was to go after every bowler.
“Everyone had to be targeted, but it was good batting conditions today. So, tough job for the bowlers there, but personally I’ve been wanting to do something like this for a while now and been hungry to get a result for the team. So it feels great,” David said.
With 17 needed off the last over, RR captain Sanju Samson tossed the ball to Jason Holder but it all finished very quickly with three back-to-back sixes off David’s willow.
“It was a little bit sweaty, so I was kind of getting out of the crease and trying to close the angle down (against Holder) and just react to wherever the ball is bowled. At that point, it just had to be good shots and try and hit the middle of the bat,” he added.
