
Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s (RCB) hard-hitter Tim David has made a large declare forward of their IPL 2025 in opposition to the Mumbai Indians on Monday. David believes they need to put Jasprit Bumrah underneath stress early, hitting his first ball for a 4 or six.
Bumrah will return to aggressive cricket for the primary time since January as MI coach Mahela Jayawardene declared him match for the conflict on Monday. The suitable-arm pacer had missed the primary 4 matches resulting from recovering from a again harm.
Talking at a pre-game presser, David claimed Bumrah is an incredible bowler and it is nice to see him again as the sport is nice when he performs. As quoted by India At this time, the right-hander stated:
“Yeah Bumrah’s fairly widely known as the perfect bowler going round and that is the problem we wish to have at RCB. If we’ll go deep on this event, we have to beat the perfect groups, we have to beat the perfect gamers. So, hopefully Bumrah is bowling the primary over tomorrow evening and the primary ball goes for 4 or 6 from whoever’s opening the batting for us, that’ll be an announcement.”
“It’s going to be nice to have him again taking part in within the event as a result of the sport’s higher with him in it.”
David, who has additionally featured for the Mumbai Indians, wasn’t retained by them forward of the public sale, the place RCB nabbed him for ₹3 crore. He has performed a few cameos on this version to prop up RCB.
“You wish to be challenged by the perfect” – Tim David forward of RCB’s conflict in opposition to MI


David additionally claimed how tough Bumrah’s yorkers are to get away from, however stated he’s equally wanting ahead to going through that, including:
“I am going to simply try to get my toes out of the best way, he is bought a reasonably deadly yorker. He is an excellent bowler and once you put in massive performances in opposition to the perfect groups, in opposition to the perfect gamers, they’re the perfect emotions you get as a participant. So that you wish to be challenged by the perfect and I am wanting ahead to that.”
The Royal Challengers are coming off a crushing defeat to the Gujarat Titans at residence.