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 double bar histogram above represents the amount of adults competing in mainstream sports in one area, in 1997 and 2017.

Overall

, the trend in most of these sports is the recent rise in participants, with the exceptions being

cricket

- which lost thousands of

players

- and swimming, which saw no fluctuations over time. Taking a closer look at the graph, it can be seen that tennis is the most popular sport in both time periods, with 50

thousand

players

in 1997 and about 55

thousand

in 2017.

On the other hand

, basketball

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the smallest

playerbase

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player base

in 1997 with less than 10

thousand

players

.

However

, in 2017,

cricket

was the least popular sport, having only about 6 to 7

thousand

players

. Turning to the other statistics, golf, football, and rugby all

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a

playerbase

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player base

player-base

of about 31 to 35

thousand

players

in 1997 and had an increase in numbers by various amounts, with golf only having about 1000 more

players

while

football and rugby saw rises of up to 15

thousand

players

. Swimming and

cricket

are the odd ones out as the number of swimmers remained static,

while

cricket

lost more than 15

thousand

players

between the two time periods.