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Appleyard vs Blunt

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AppleyardWinner
84.4

Appleyard wins: Dominance, Peak, Statistics

Blunt
84.4

Blunt wins: Longevity, Honours

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇬🇧 Bob Appleyard
84.4

Appleyard leads in 3 of 5 weighted categories. Took 200 wickets in his first full season and never lost a Test he played.

1. Bob Appleyard
84.4
2. Roger Blunt
84.4

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. 🇬🇧 Bob Appleyard5 years played · career day 1,825398 runs
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇳🇿 Roger Blunt5 years played · career day 1,825293 runs
-26.4% vs Appleyard at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇬🇧 Appleyard0060158398592
🇳🇿 Blunt0050104293605

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.

MetricAppleyardRetiredBluntRetired
Wickets in debut season200
First-class wickets708236
First-class average15
Test wickets31
Tests lost0
Test appearances9
Test runs330
First-class runs9,069
Highest score338
Dominance w25%8680
Peak w20%9490
Longevity w20%7084
Honours w20%8082
Statistics w15%9488

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GOAT Rank · the data
Appleyard84.4
Blunt84.4
The people
Appleyard
Blunt

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