Category profile
- Dominance
- 82
- Peak
- 92
- Longevity
- 78
- Honours
- 84
- Statistics
- 86
Career timeline · Centuries per year
| Season | Centuries per year | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 45 | |
| 2015 | 50 | |
| 2016 | 55 | |
| 2017 | 58 | |
| 2018 | 62 | |
| 2019 | 60 | |
| 2020 | 55 | |
| 2021 | 52 | |
| 2022 | 58 | |
| 2023 | 54 | |
| 2024 | 50 |
Data sources
- ICC
- ESPNcricinfo
- Olympics.com
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Ben Stokes ranks #45 in Cricket
Ben Stokes ranks 45th among Cricket athletes on GOAT Rank and 553rd of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 84.2 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 82, Peak 92, Longevity 78, Honours 84, Statistics 86. Those categories are normalised against the full Cricket reference universe of 294 records, not a shortlist, so the position reflects the whole sport rather than a handful of famous names.
The record covers 2011–present with 11 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 2018, which sets the Peak component at 92. Peak is the defining strength of the profile at 92 out of 100, and it carries 20% of the final score. The underlying career record includes world cups 1, world t20 titles 1, test runs 6500, test wickets 200.
Immediately ahead sits Smriti Mandhana on 84.8, a gap of 0.6 points. Directly behind is Kane Williamson on 82.4. The position moves whenever the verified record moves: new titles, new seasons or a corrected source all feed straight back into the same formula, and every change is dated on this profile.
Ben Stokes GOAT Score explained
- Dominance82/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Stokes stood above the field while competing. Scored 82/100 against the full Cricket cohort.
- Peak92/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 2018. Scored 92/100.
- Longevity78/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 15 years of competition and 11 recorded seasons. Scored 78/100.
- Honours84/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 84/100.
- Statistics86/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 86/100.
Top Stokes comparisons
Ben Stokes — frequently asked
- Is Ben Stokes the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Ben Stokes ranks 45th in Cricket with a GOAT Score of 84.2, behind Sachin Tendulkar on 94.4.
- What is Ben Stokes's GOAT Score?
- 84.2 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 82 (25%), Peak 92 (20%), Longevity 78 (20%), Honours 84 (20%), Statistics 86 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Ben Stokes rank all time?
- 553rd of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 45th within Cricket.
- Ben Stokes vs Smriti Mandhana: who ranks higher?
- Smriti Mandhana, on 84.8 against Ben Stokes's 84.2 — a margin of 0.6 points.