Tim David had a new chapter to write when he walked out to bat for RCB. With a couple of wickets tumbling ahead of his arrival in quick succession, the mood in the Royal Challengers dugout was getting taut. They needed an act of rampage to set them free but the question looming large for them was who can be the man to do it.

As the 18th over was about to draw to a close and RCB was already dropping momentum, Tim David walked out to the center. In his second stint with RCB, he got off to a fiery start, whacking Khaleel Ahmed behind point on the very first ball he faced.

He got his next strike in the final over and Sam Curran came in with a couple of peaches in the first two balls of the over. The first one was touch fuller outside the off-stump which David could only redirect to point while the second one was a wide yorker just outside the off-pole.

With the pressure mounting, the Aussie all-rounder had a shift in stance and was ready to unleash an avalanche of madness in the forthcoming delivery. An open stance in play already, a high backlift and a steely glare, when Currans steamed in, attempting a yorker, it went horribly wrong for the English all-rounder.

Turned into a juicy full toss, Tim David came after it and picked the bones out of that, parking it out of the ground over the deep backward square leg. Put under the pump, Curran reacted with a slower one, bowled a touch fuller. As slow as it might have been, it made no difference to Tim David who wields the power of a gladiator.

Rocking it late, he sent the ball crashing over Curran’s head into the sightscreen. Perplexed by the sudden surge from David, the English fast bowler decided to pull the length back. No matter the length, the fences were dancing wildly in the minds of Tim the destructor and once again, the Aussie hard-hitter bludgeoned Curran over the cow-corner to complete a hat trick of sixes.

David stayed unbeaten for 22 off just 8 balls, stamping his authority as one of the most brutal strikers of the ball and an adept finisher as well, if needed. His storm at the end was a bleeding testimony to his incredible power and an impeccable hand-eye coordination that left Sam Curran disoriented.