Longest national anthems amongst cricketing nations

England cricket team
The England cricket team have one of the shorter renditions of their anthem played before games

8) Australia

Australia
Australia are five time world champions

Australia’s “Advance Australia Fair” is a close ninth with an average playtime of about 55 seconds. With inspiring lyrics, it sure does the trick for the 5-time World Champions as they are always up for a good fight on the big stage.

However, recently the anthem did counter controversy, when Aussie batsman Usman Khwaja was seen grabbing debutant Adam Zampa’s behind- anthem in progress - ahead of an ODI with New Zealand in early 2016. It did seem to do wonders for Zampa though as he registered impressive figures of 2/57.

I guess, sometimes it’s good to be “caught behind!”

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Edited by Staff Editor