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Bosanquet vs Adcock

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BosanquetWinner
83.2

Bosanquet wins: Dominance, Peak, Honours

Adcock
83.2

Adcock wins: Longevity, Statistics

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇬🇧 Bernard Bosanquet
83.2

Bosanquet leads in 3 of 5 weighted categories. Invented the googly and won the 1905 Ashes Test at Trent Bridge with it.

1. Bernard Bosanquet
83.2
2. Neil Adcock
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. 🇬🇧 Bernard Bosanquet5 years played · career day 1,824298 runs
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇿🇦 Neil Adcock5 years played · career day 1,826296 runs
-0.7% vs Bosanquet at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇬🇧 Bosanquet004597298743
🇿🇦 Adcock004597222640

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.

MetricBosanquetRetiredAdcockRetired
First-class wickets629405
Test wickets25104
First-class runs11,696
Best Test figures8
Tests played726
Test average21
Five-wicket hauls in Tests5
Dominance w25%8482
Peak w20%9290
Longevity w20%7678
Honours w20%8078
Statistics w15%8490

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GOAT Rank · the data
Bosanquet83.2
Adcock83.2
The people
Bosanquet
Adcock

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