Category profile
- Dominance
- 84
- Peak
- 88
- Longevity
- 88
- Honours
- 86
- Statistics
- 88
Career timeline · Centuries per year
| Season | Centuries per year | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 32 | |
| 1980 | 40 | |
| 1981 | 45 | |
| 1982 | 50 | |
| 1983 | 48 | |
| 1984 | 42 | |
| 1985 | 38 | |
| 1986 | 40 | |
| 1987 | 35 | |
| 1988 | 30 | |
| 1989 | 28 | |
| 1990 | 24 | |
| 1991 | 20 | |
| 1992 | 16 |
Data sources
- ICC
- ESPNcricinfo
- Olympics.com
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Kapil Dev ranks #30 in Cricket
Kapil Dev ranks 30th among Cricket athletes on GOAT Rank and 256th of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 86.6 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 84, Peak 88, Longevity 88, Honours 86, Statistics 88. 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 1975–1994 with 14 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1982, which sets the Peak component at 88. Peak is the defining strength of the profile at 88 out of 100, and it carries 20% of the final score. The underlying career record includes world cups 1, test wickets 434, test runs 5248, five-wicket hauls 23.
Immediately ahead sits Stafanie Taylor on 87.2, a gap of 0.6 points. Directly behind is Jhulan Goswami on 85.6. 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.
Kapil Dev GOAT Score explained
- Dominance84/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Kapil stood above the field while competing. Scored 84/100 against the full Cricket cohort.
- Peak88/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1982. Scored 88/100.
- Longevity88/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 19 years of competition and 14 recorded seasons. Scored 88/100.
- Honours86/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 86/100.
- Statistics88/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 88/100.
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Kapil Dev — frequently asked
- Is Kapil Dev the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Kapil Dev ranks 30th in Cricket with a GOAT Score of 86.6, behind Sachin Tendulkar on 94.4.
- What is Kapil Dev's GOAT Score?
- 86.6 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 84 (25%), Peak 88 (20%), Longevity 88 (20%), Honours 86 (20%), Statistics 88 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Kapil Dev rank all time?
- 256th of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 30th within Cricket.
- Kapil Dev vs Stafanie Taylor: who ranks higher?
- Stafanie Taylor, on 87.2 against Kapil Dev's 86.6 — a margin of 0.6 points.