The Five Most Popular Sports

Today I read an article about the world's most popular sports.  The article gave the top spot to football, or, as it is known in some countries, soccer.  I learned that 3.5 billion players and spectators love this game.
   Cricket was the next most popular, with about 3 billion people playing and watching.  I had thought that the country where it was most popular was India, but the article said it was actually Australia. Nevertheless, 40 percent of the Indian population watches cricket’s most important games.
   After these sports, field golf is the most popular.  It was amazing for me to read that 4000 years ago, in Egypt, people played golf.  Of course, the rules were different then.
   Tennis came next on the list.  It shocked me to learn that the longest official tennis game lasted eleven hours and five minutes!  Awesome.
   The final sport in the top five was ping pong, or table tennis.  I didn’t know that a ping pong ball can go over 160 km/h, or 100 mph, in a game.
Before I read this article I thought basketball would be on the list, but I was wrong.  Maybe I thought so because I love basketball, and play it.

Tell me your opinion and correct me if I made any mistakes.