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Flintoff vs Ganguly

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FlintoffWinner
86.4

Flintoff wins: Dominance, Peak, Statistics

Ganguly
86.4

Ganguly 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. Sourav Ganguly
86.4

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. 🇮🇳 Sourav Ganguly5 years played · career day 3,287233 runs
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇬🇧 Andrew Flintoff5 years played · career day 2,921124 runs
-46.8% vs Ganguly at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇬🇧 Flintoff000032170
🇮🇳 Ganguly00000233

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.

MetricFlintoffRetiredGangulyRetired
Test wickets226
Test runs3,8457,212
Ashes series won2
Man of the Series awards3
Tests played79
ODI runs11,363
ODI centuries22
Tests as captain49
ODI wickets100
Dominance w25%8482
Peak w20%9690
Longevity w20%7888
Honours w20%8484
Statistics w15%9290

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GOAT Rank · the data
Flintoff86.4
Ganguly86.4
The people
Flintoff
Ganguly

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