The correct answer is C. Cricket.
Baseball originated in the United States in the 18th century. Archery is a sport that has been practiced for centuries in many different cultures. Hockey is a sport that originated in Central Asia and spread to Europe in the Middle Ages.
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a 22-yard (20-metre) pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The game proceeds when a player on the fielding team, called the bowler, “bowls” (propels) the ball from one end of the pitch towards the wicket at the other end. The batting side has one player at each end of the pitch, with the player at the opposite end of the pitch from the bowler aiming to strike the ball with a bat. The batting side scores runs when either the bowler unfairly bowls the ball to either side of the wicket (unfairly throwing the ball is called a “wide”), or when the ball reaches the boundary of the field. The fielding side’s aim is to prevent run-scoring and dismiss each player (so they are “out”, and are said to have “lost their wicket”). Players are dismissed in a number of ways, including being bowled, when the ball hits the wicket and dislodges the bails, and by being caught, when the ball is hit and then caught by a fielder before it touches the ground.
The game is governed by the International Cricket Council (ICC), which has over 100 member countries. Cricket is the world’s second most popular sport by number of participants, after association football (soccer). It is the most popular sport in the Indian subcontinent, England, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the West Indies.