That's probably up for debate. I've heard AFL and Football (soccer) make the same claims of most participants. If you consider kids/school sport and the increased prominence of women's codes, I'd also include Netball in the conversation, and that's without somehow measuring the participation in sports like surfing, golf or cycling outside organised competitions...
Cricket has the most registered players of any sport in Australia with over 1.5 million(source: https://takeatumble.com.au/insights/10-most-popular-sports-in-australia/). It is also popular across the whole country, whereas AFL is only really popular in Victoria, SA, WA, NT and Tasmania; and Rugby League in NSW and Queensland. It also gets a lot of media coverage, and the game, and the national team, has a more profound place in the national psyche than any other sport.
Technically cricket isn't the most popular by any measure, at least not anymore.
Most played amateur sport: soccer
Most watched league sport: Aussie rules
Most watched international sport: soccer (the Australia vs England semi-final at the last Women's World Cup, hosted by Australia and NZ, broke the record for most watched TV event in Australia when 70% of the country watched the game, which was played in Sydney)
Soccer and cricket are both more popular as international sports in Australia than as league sports. The Socceroos and the Matildas, like all our national teams, have huge followings here, whereas the only sold-out A-League games are usually big rivalries like the Sydney Derby (Sydney FC vs Western Sydney Wanderers), the Melbourne Derby (Melbourne City vs Melbourne Victory) or the Big Blue (Melbourne Victory vs Sydney FC). In cricket, internationals are more popular than BBL matches. In contrast, more people watch the NRL than the Kangaroos or Jillaroos in rugby league.
Haha , but with growing Indian influence in Afghanistan, Cricket has steadily overtaken. India's primary Milk producer Amul is the sponsor of the Afghanistan Cricket Team :)
Afghanistan's emergence has been remarkable, and was driven fairly recently by Afghan refugees in Pakistan learning the game. That country is still unable to host home matches, and it plays all of its games overseas.
I was also expecting Australia and New Zealand to make the list... but upon further research, they have a lot of other popular sports (Australian football, rugby, etc.) so it seems that, as popular as cricket is, it can't be considered dominant.
Test playing nations clearly have cricket as their most popular sport during home series against other test nations. In Australia cricket is definitely the most popular summer sport and this is the measure that should be used.
The quiz is therefore nonsensical. Missing test nations are Zimbabwe, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and of course England. The Caribbean countries in the quiz assemble a single test team; the West Indies but they have their own identities and their own domestic competition which is actually an international competition.
Other countries play domestic cricket but it is a minor sport such as Canada, Netherlands, Ireland and China (Hong Kong)
The source provided is very dodgy. It doesn't use the wikipedia article of Dominica (as stated in the instructions), it's a list that says Dominica is not included because of a 2-line stub article that randomly claims football is the most popular sport with no supporting evidence.
The actual wikipedia page for Dominica implies that cricket is the most popular sport, and research on Google heavily suggests it is too.
Also, in England it is historically more a game for the elite classes - like rugby - and the masses have more numbers.
It is way down the list in Northern Ireland, probably less popular in Scotland as it hasn't got the weather for it and probably is not even the most popular summer sport in Cardiff. I'd guess that was probably baseball (of the traditional variety).
But Hey-ho. Glamorgan stand a chance of being promoted from Div 2 this year if they keep current form up.
Nepal is a bit of a surprise because they don't have as large of a cricket presence on the international stage as their neighbors. I looked up their team and it seems that their national team is still relatively new. It'll be interesting seeing where it goes from here in the future.
Why are you spamming countries? Most of these are easy to guess (the only exceptions being Nepal and Guyana) if you know anything about international cricket, the continents hint (to let you know to ignore Europe and Oceania) is enough.
If you don't know anything about cricket then that's fine, but you can't really complain if a quiz about cricket expects you to know something about cricket.
Countries of the World by Sports
Most played amateur sport: soccer
Most watched league sport: Aussie rules
Most watched international sport: soccer (the Australia vs England semi-final at the last Women's World Cup, hosted by Australia and NZ, broke the record for most watched TV event in Australia when 70% of the country watched the game, which was played in Sydney)
Soccer and cricket are both more popular as international sports in Australia than as league sports. The Socceroos and the Matildas, like all our national teams, have huge followings here, whereas the only sold-out A-League games are usually big rivalries like the Sydney Derby (Sydney FC vs Western Sydney Wanderers), the Melbourne Derby (Melbourne City vs Melbourne Victory) or the Big Blue (Melbourne Victory vs Sydney FC). In cricket, internationals are more popular than BBL matches. In contrast, more people watch the NRL than the Kangaroos or Jillaroos in rugby league.
The quiz is therefore nonsensical. Missing test nations are Zimbabwe, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and of course England. The Caribbean countries in the quiz assemble a single test team; the West Indies but they have their own identities and their own domestic competition which is actually an international competition.
Other countries play domestic cricket but it is a minor sport such as Canada, Netherlands, Ireland and China (Hong Kong)
The actual wikipedia page for Dominica implies that cricket is the most popular sport, and research on Google heavily suggests it is too.
It is way down the list in Northern Ireland, probably less popular in Scotland as it hasn't got the weather for it and probably is not even the most popular summer sport in Cardiff. I'd guess that was probably baseball (of the traditional variety).
But Hey-ho. Glamorgan stand a chance of being promoted from Div 2 this year if they keep current form up.
I think it'd be more fun to see something like a random stat included as a hint.
Ex:
-This North American country has a population of 112,000 and uses English as the official language- answer Grenada..
-This Asian country is 90% Muslim, and became independent in 1971 following a war with Pakistan. It has been democratic since 1990- answer Bangladesh
At least I feel like I'm learning something useful that way
If you don't know anything about cricket then that's fine, but you can't really complain if a quiz about cricket expects you to know something about cricket.