Category profile
- Dominance
- 86
- Peak
- 90
- Longevity
- 86
- Honours
- 84
- Statistics
- 92
Career timeline · Centuries per year
| Season | Centuries per year | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 774 | |
| 1972 | 686 | |
| 1973 | 542 | |
| 1974 | 640 | |
| 1975 | 720 | |
| 1976 | 800 | |
| 1977 | 760 | |
| 1978 | 700 | |
| 1979 | 650 | |
| 1980 | 620 | |
| 1981 | 580 | |
| 1982 | 520 | |
| 1983 | 480 | |
| 1984 | 420 | |
| 1985 | 380 | |
| 1986 | 340 |
Data sources
- ICC
- ESPNcricinfo
- Olympics.com
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Sunil Gavaskar ranks #28 in Cricket
Sunil Gavaskar ranks 28th among Cricket athletes on GOAT Rank and 247th of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 87.3 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 86, Peak 90, Longevity 86, Honours 84, Statistics 92. 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 1971–1987 with 16 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1976, which sets the Peak component at 90. Statistics is the defining strength of the profile at 92 out of 100, and it carries 15% of the final score. The underlying career record includes test runs 10122, test centuries 34, test average 51.12, world cups 1.
Immediately ahead sits Javed Miandad on 86.5, a gap of -0.8 points. Directly behind is Stafanie Taylor on 87.2. 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.
Sunil Gavaskar GOAT Score explained
- Dominance86/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Gavaskar stood above the field while competing. Scored 86/100 against the full Cricket cohort.
- Peak90/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1976. Scored 90/100.
- Longevity86/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 16 years of competition and 16 recorded seasons. Scored 86/100.
- Honours84/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 84/100.
- Statistics92/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 92/100.
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Sunil Gavaskar — frequently asked
- Is Sunil Gavaskar the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Sunil Gavaskar ranks 28th in Cricket with a GOAT Score of 87.3, behind Sachin Tendulkar on 94.4.
- What is Sunil Gavaskar's GOAT Score?
- 87.3 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 86 (25%), Peak 90 (20%), Longevity 86 (20%), Honours 84 (20%), Statistics 92 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Sunil Gavaskar rank all time?
- 247th of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 28th within Cricket.
- Sunil Gavaskar vs Javed Miandad: who ranks higher?
- Sunil Gavaskar, on 87.3 against Javed Miandad's 86.5 — a margin of 0.8 points.