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Babar vs Lillee

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LilleeWinner
85.0

Lillee wins: Dominance, Longevity, Honours

Babar
83.2

Babar wins: Statistics

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇦🇺 Dennis Lillee
85.0

Lillee leads in 4 of 5 weighted categories. 355 Test wickets and the defining fast bowler of the 1970s.

1. Dennis Lillee
85.0
2. Babar Azam
83.2

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. 🇵🇰 Babar Azam5 years played · career day 1,825285 runs
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇦🇺 Dennis Lillee5 years played · career day 2,555105 runs
-63.2% vs Babar at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇵🇰 Babar004597285498
🇦🇺 Lillee000059171

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.

MetricBabarActiveLilleeRetired
ODI centuries19
Test centuries9
T20I runs4,223
ODI batting average56
Months as world No. 130
Test wickets355
Bowling average23.92
Five-wicket hauls23
Test matches70
ODI wickets103
Dominance w25%8486
Peak w20%9292
Longevity w20%7278
Honours w20%7880
Statistics w15%9290

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GOAT Rank · the data
Lillee85.0
Babar83.2
The people
Babar
Lillee

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