Tim David played two astonishing innings on the same day to help UAE Bulls win the 2025 Abu Dhabi T10.
18-ball 57* in Qualifier 2
The first game of the evening, on November 30, was set up by UAE left-arm seamer Muhammad Rohid (2-0-13-3). In an exceptional first over of the innings, Rohid bowled out Muhammad Waseem with the second ball, had Evin Lewis caught-behind with the fourth, and had Liam Livingstone caught off the sixth to leave Quetta Qavalry reeling at 2-3.
Andries Gous (25 in 14 balls) and Khawaja Nafay (21 in 11) added 41 before falling in quick succession. Qais Ahmad (2-0-21-3) then helped the Bulls restrict Quetta to 104-8 even as Jason Holder remained unbeaten on a 14-ball 25.
In response, Mohammad Amir (2-0-22-2) struck twice in the second over, but David and James Vince took the attack to the Quetta camp. Quetta stood with a chance when Holder got Vince (37 in 18), but David sealed the game in the seventh over, smashing five sixes and a four off Khuzaima Tanveer. It took the Bulls two more balls to seal the game as David remained unbeaten on 57 in 18 balls with seven sixes.
30-ball 98* in the final
Vince retired hurt early in the final, and David joined Rovman Powell with the Bulls on 22-1 after 2.2 overs against the Aspin Stallions. He began cautiously, taking 11 balls for his first 15 runs as the Bulls were 61-1 after six overs.
In the seventh, David hit Zohair Iqbal for four consecutive sixes, but Binura Fernando gave away only eight in the next over. Across the next two overs, David hit eight more sixes – three off Hafeez-ur-Rehman, five off Ashmead Nedd – to finish on 98 from 30 balls, hitting 12 sixes off the last 17 balls he faced.
UAE Bulls finished on 150-1 in their 10 overs. In response, the Aspin Stallions could reach only 70-4, giving UAE Bulls the title.
David's stunning campaign
David had been UAE Bulls' star player throughout the competition. While they stumbled through the group stages, finishing fourth out of eight teams and thus having to go through the Eliminator before Finals Day, David was exceptional throughout. Only once was he dismissed for less than 30, and his 393 runs was over than 100 more than the next best in the competition (Phil Salt's 256). His 38 sixes were 18 better than Salt in second, and only Chris Jordan, who faced just 21 balls in the tournament, had a higher strike-rate than his 263.75.
The triumph was UAE Bulls' first, having finished as runners-up in two editions from 2021 onwards, when they were known as Delhi Bulls.
