The chart below shows the number of adults participating in different major sports in one area, in 1997 and 2017. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The graph provides information related to the

number

of adults who practiced some sports in 1997 and 2017, in a particular place.

Overall

, it is essential to highlight that, comparing both years,

it is clear that

the quantity of

people

who played sports was higher in 2017, except for the

number

of participants who practiced cricket, which declined, and those who swam, which was constant figure over that period.

Moreover

, the

number

of adults who played basketball, football, and rugby grew significantly. As aforementioned, cricket became less popular:

while

in 1997 around 27

thousand

adults practiced it, in 2018, less than 10

thousand

people

played that game.

In contrast

, there was a sharp growth in the football and rugby figures, which bore resemblance for those sports: in 1997, approximately 30

thousand

individuals played each of those games, but that

number

climbed to almost 50

thousand

people

in 2017. Basketball was a sport that

also

had a significant increase on its

number

of participants since it was played by less than 10

thousand

persons in 1997, but more than 20

thousand

people

played it in 2017.