Royal Challengers Bangalore
The 65th match of the league stage of the IPL 2025 season was played on 23 May between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad. In this match, the RCB team lost by a margin of 42 runs, which is definitely a shock for them before the playoff match. At the same time, Tim David, who played the role of this season Finisher for the RCB team during the match against Hyderabad, was injured during the fielding, which is a big concern before the playoff matches.
Had to go out of the field due to stretch in hamstring
In the match against RCB, Sunrisers Hyderabad team got a chance to bat first in which they scored 231 runs in 20 overs. During the last over of Hyderabad’s innings, Tim David was fielding on the square leg boundary, the first ball of the same over, which was thrown by Yash Dayal, Ishaan Kishan played a flicks shot which was fast going towards deep square leg boundary, Tim David who was fielding there, he stopped the ball, but he got the balls immediately after that RCB team’s Physio had to come inside the field and Tim David then went out with him. In this match, when RCB was chasing the target, Tim David came out to bat on number-8 in which he faced 5 balls and could score only one run.
Captain Jitesh Sharma also did not give any update
After the defeat in the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad, wicketkeeper batsman Jitesh Sharma, captaining RCB team in this match, did not give any update about Tim David’s injury. RCB may be hoping that Tim David gets fully fit before the playoffs as Jacob Bethle and Lungi Angidi are not already available for playoff matches, while the picture is not completely clear even about the availability of Josh Hazlewood.
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