The bar graph illustrates the number of participants in various major sports between the years,1997 and 2017.
Overall, while the participant numbers rose in Tennis, Golf, Football and Rugby, the numbers fell considerably in Cricket.
Looking in detail, Tennis had the highest number of participants with 50,000 in 1997 and around 55,000 in 2017. Both Football and Rugby showed similar trends with a substantial increase of 18,000 and 17,000 from 1997 to 2017 respectively. There was a had a slight increase in number from about 31,000 in 1997 and 32,000 in 2017.
Conversely, although, Cricket had a good number of participants of 25,000 in 1997, it was the only sport which showed a notable decrease from 25,000 in 1997 and close to 5,000 in 2017, indicating the insignificance of the sport among adults in the same year.
One notable point is that,the number of participating adults in Swimming remained at 30,000 in both 1997 and 2017.
