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Xtra Time Web Desk: Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) has surprised many by signing Singapore cricketer Tim David. David has been signed as a replacement player for New Zealand’s Finn Allen. The cricketer from Singapore is no stranger in T20 circuit across the globe. The hard hitting batsman from Singapore has already played 14 T20I’s, scoring 558 runs at a whopping strike rate of 158 plus.

The freelance T20 sensation will be the player to watch out for in IPL 2021 second leg in UAE.

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

David has already plied his trade across T20 leagues having made his appearances in the Big Bash League, Pakistan Super League and Caribbean Premier League with a tally of 1171 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. David is currently playing in the CPL for Saint Lucia Kings.

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.

It 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 senior level competitive games.

The addition of Tim David will no doubt add more firepower to RCB batting line up.