Category profile
- Dominance
- 84
- Peak
- 90
- Longevity
- 88
- Honours
- 82
- Statistics
- 94
Career timeline · Centuries per year
| Season | Centuries per year | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 38 | |
| 2001 | 42 | |
| 2002 | 48 | |
| 2003 | 55 | |
| 2004 | 60 | |
| 2005 | 58 | |
| 2006 | 66 | |
| 2007 | 62 | |
| 2008 | 57 | |
| 2009 | 54 | |
| 2010 | 52 | |
| 2011 | 50 | |
| 2012 | 48 | |
| 2013 | 46 | |
| 2014 | 44 | |
| 2015 | 42 |
Data sources
- ICC
- ESPNcricinfo
- Olympics.com
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Kumar Sangakkara ranks #26 in Cricket
Kumar Sangakkara ranks 26th among Cricket athletes on GOAT Rank and 234th of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 87.1 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 84, Peak 90, Longevity 88, Honours 82, 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 1997–2015 with 16 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 2006, which sets the Peak component at 90. Statistics is the defining strength of the profile at 94 out of 100, and it carries 15% of the final score. The underlying career record includes test runs 12400, odi runs 14234, test centuries 38, test average 57.4.
Immediately ahead sits Wasim Akram on 87.4, a gap of 0.3 points. Directly behind is Javed Miandad on 86.5. 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.
Kumar Sangakkara GOAT Score explained
- Dominance84/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Sangakkara stood above the field while competing. Scored 84/100 against the full Cricket cohort.
- Peak90/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 2006. Scored 90/100.
- Longevity88/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 18 years of competition and 16 recorded seasons. Scored 88/100.
- Honours82/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 82/100.
- Statistics94/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 94/100.
Top Sangakkara comparisons
Kumar Sangakkara — frequently asked
- Is Kumar Sangakkara the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Kumar Sangakkara ranks 26th in Cricket with a GOAT Score of 87.1, behind Sachin Tendulkar on 94.4.
- What is Kumar Sangakkara's GOAT Score?
- 87.1 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 84 (25%), Peak 90 (20%), Longevity 88 (20%), Honours 82 (20%), Statistics 94 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Kumar Sangakkara rank all time?
- 234th of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 26th within Cricket.
- Kumar Sangakkara vs Wasim Akram: who ranks higher?
- Wasim Akram, on 87.4 against Kumar Sangakkara's 87.1 — a margin of 0.3 points.