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Star India batter Shreyas Iyer has admitted that Nike, a brand with which he has a professional collaboration, offered him a trip to this year\u2019s Wimbledon, but he chose to stay away, adding how almost every Indian cricketer landed up at the Championships this year.<\/p>\n

Iyer<\/a> played for the West Zone in a recent Duleep Trophy encounter against the Central Zone. Before that, he last played in the Indian Premier League final, where the Punjab Kings, a team that he led for the first time, finished runners-up.<\/p>\n

Soon after, Iyer flew to Barcelona, where he met Spanish tennis star Carlos Alcaraz a day after the latter\u2019s four-set Wimbledon final loss to Jannik Sinner.<\/p>\n

Nike, which shares ties with both Iyer and Alcaraz, facilitated the brief meeting between the two.<\/p>\n

\u201cNike also offered to take me to Wimbledon\u2026 but I decided to stay away. It looked like the whole of India was in London this year,” Iyer said while speaking to\u00a0GQ India.\u00a0<\/em>This year\u2019s tournament saw a record presence of Indian cricketers, both past and present.<\/p>\n

The Centre Court guest list featured batting icon Sachin Tendulkar, ex-India coach Ravi Shastri, star batter Virat Kohli and former skipper MS Dhoni.\u00a0Multiple members of India\u2019s Test team, including Rishabh Pant and pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah, who were on tour in England at the time, were spotted at the iconic venue.<\/p>\n

In August, the national selectors left Iyer out of the T20 Asia Cup team, a move that sparked widespread criticism online. However, weeks later, he was handed the leadership of the India A team for two multi-day games against Australia A to be played later this month.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can only control the controllable. I can only keep working on my skills and strength and when the opportunity arises, I\u2019ll grab it with both hands,” Iyer said.<\/p>\n

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