Longest national anthems amongst cricketing nations

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

8) Australia

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!”