Category profile
- Dominance
- 92
- Peak
- 94
- Longevity
- 88
- Honours
- 88
- Statistics
- 94
Career timeline · Centuries per year
| Season | Centuries per year | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 45 | |
| 1956 | 50 | |
| 1957 | 58 | |
| 1958 | 62 | |
| 1959 | 66 | |
| 1960 | 70 | |
| 1961 | 58 | |
| 1962 | 62 | |
| 1963 | 55 | |
| 1964 | 60 | |
| 1965 | 52 | |
| 1966 | 48 | |
| 1967 | 44 | |
| 1968 | 40 |
Data sources
- ICC
- ESPNcricinfo
- Olympics.com
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Garfield Sobers ranks #7 in Cricket
Garfield Sobers ranks 7th among Cricket athletes on GOAT Rank and 94th of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 91.1 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 92, Peak 94, Longevity 88, Honours 88, Statistics 94. 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 1953–1974 with 14 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1960, which sets the Peak component at 94. Peak is the defining strength of the profile at 94 out of 100, and it carries 20% of the final score. The underlying career record includes test runs 8032, test wickets 235, test centuries 26, test average 57.78.
Immediately ahead sits Muttiah Muralitharan on 90.7, a gap of -0.4 points. Directly behind is Donald Bradman on 93.6. 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.
Garfield Sobers GOAT Score explained
- Dominance92/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Sobers stood above the field while competing. Scored 92/100 against the full Cricket cohort.
- Peak94/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1960. Scored 94/100.
- Longevity88/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 21 years of competition and 14 recorded seasons. Scored 88/100.
- Honours88/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 88/100.
- Statistics94/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 94/100.
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Garfield Sobers — frequently asked
- Is Garfield Sobers the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Garfield Sobers ranks 7th in Cricket with a GOAT Score of 91.1, behind Sachin Tendulkar on 94.4.
- What is Garfield Sobers's GOAT Score?
- 91.1 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 92 (25%), Peak 94 (20%), Longevity 88 (20%), Honours 88 (20%), Statistics 94 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Garfield Sobers rank all time?
- 94th of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 7th within Cricket.
- Garfield Sobers vs Muttiah Muralitharan: who ranks higher?
- Garfield Sobers, on 91.1 against Muttiah Muralitharan's 90.7 — a margin of 0.4 points.