Here in the US Cricket is not well known at all. And if you mean Football as in Soccer, well... that's not big here either but as far as the rest of the world goes I guess you could rank it top three.
The toss up might be between football (soccer) and cricket. Although I prefer cricket I think football might be the most popular sport in the world. There's more leagues and competitions and of course money.
Football/soccer - no doubt! I see there is a lot of cricket fans here. But I'm not sure if its 2nd in the top rank? Here in Norway and most of Europe I would say that Cricket isn't popular at all. Except UK and maybe France aswell? Where is Cricket so popular? India, Pakistan etc? - kenny