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Flintoff vs McCullum

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FlintoffWinner
86.4

Flintoff wins: Dominance, Honours

McCullum
86.3

McCullum wins: Longevity

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇬🇧 Andrew Flintoff
86.4

Flintoff leads in 4 of 5 weighted categories. The defining figure of the 2005 Ashes with 226 Test wickets and 3,845 runs.

1. Andrew Flintoff
86.4
2. Brendon McCullum
86.3

Category breakdown

Season form · Centuries per year

Career timeline · Centuries per year

Cumulative output season by season — the shape of each career against the other.

GOAT pace tracker

Career stage · GOAT pace

Through year 5 · Centuries per year
1. 🇳🇿 Brendon McCullum5 years played · career day 2,921170 runs
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇬🇧 Andrew Flintoff5 years played · career day 2,921124 runs
-27.1% vs McCullum at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇬🇧 Flintoff000032170
🇳🇿 McCullum000056210

Careers are aligned at debut, so a rookie's first 5 years are measured against the same window in a legend's career — Yamal against Messi at the same age-stage, a tour rookie against Tiger Woods in 1996.

MetricFlintoffRetiredMcCullumRetired
Test wickets226
Test runs3,8456,453
Ashes series won2
Man of the Series awards3
Tests played79
Highest Test score302
Fastest Test century (balls)54
ODI runs6,083
Consecutive Tests101
Dominance w25%8482
Peak w20%9696
Longevity w20%7884
Honours w20%8480
Statistics w15%9292

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GOAT Rank · the data
Flintoff86.4
McCullum86.3
The people
Flintoff
McCullum

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