Who told you cricket is the most popular game? Most popular game is football and cricket ranks number 2.
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In the USA more than 40 million people play some form of Baseball. This takes into account all ages and gender. Mens slow pitch softball accounts for up to 18 milliion players participating in some league each year. These numbers make baseball/softball the #1 played in US. compared to Basketball at 38million and soccer at 18 million. Worldwide soccer is the number 1 played sport. This is due to the simple fact its and easy game to play and requires little equipment. In countries like Japan, So Korea, Dominican, Venezuela baseball is top played sport. Manufactures of baseball equipment (Akadema, Rawlings, Wilson, Mizuno) are seeing larger sales
Baseball is popular mostly in the US and Japan. It is not a very popular sport around the world even though it is an Olympic sport. Another Country that play baseball is Korea.
It is the third most popular sport in the world behind 1soccer 2football,but baseball is the most attended sport in the world.
Not wildly popular; not in the same league as football (soccer) or even cricket. But it is popular in several countries other than the USA.