World News Cummins savours Djokovic beating Brit at Wimbledon Blog

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Being captain of the cricket Test and 50-over World champions has its perks, such as an invitation to the Royal Box at Wimbledon.

As India brought home the T20 World Cup, the only trophy Cummins’ team has ever won, in front of thousands in the streets of Mumbai, Pat Cummins coped with Australia’s early exit in the Caribbean by watching a tennis match on the fabled Centre Court.

While most of his compatriots, led by Alex de Minaur, were struggling on the outside courts, Cummins was in London SW19, where the main lineup on the show court consisted of a trio of champions: Novak Djokovic, Iga Swiatek and Andy Murray.

His wife Becky, who married Pat in 2022, was at the Australian skipper’s side.

With the destroyer of so many English sporting dreams in the house, it was perhaps fittingly a bad day for British tennis.

Murray played his last Wimbledon match with his brother Andy against the Australian duo John Peers and Rinky Hijikata. Despite the Murray brothers’ huge support from the crowd, the Australians won this Ashes tennis duel in straight sets.

Djokovic also played against a Brit, qualifier Jacob Fearnley, and sent him into the ring in four sets.

Cummins’ appearance in a suit, boots and sunglasses garnered much admiration on social media and there were even suggestions that he should become the next James Bond.

Perhaps he could discuss this with survivalist Bear Grylls, who was also in the box, as was Britain’s former Olympic middle-distance champion Seb Coe, now president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), who was sitting in the row in front.

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