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Harbhajan vs Bakewell

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HarbhajanWinner
88.4

Harbhajan wins: Longevity

Bakewell
88.4

Bakewell wins: Dominance, Honours, Statistics

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇮🇳 Harbhajan Singh
88.4

Harbhajan leads in 2 of 5 weighted categories. Took the first Test hat-trick for India and won the 2011 World Cup.

1. Harbhajan Singh
88.4
2. Enid Bakewell
88.4

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. 🇬🇧 Enid Bakewell5 years played · career day 2,556296 runs
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇮🇳 Harbhajan Singh5 years played · career day 1,825132 runs
-55.4% vs Bakewell at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇮🇳 Harbhajan00820132250
🇬🇧 Bakewell0000170398

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.

MetricHarbhajanRetiredBakewellRetired
Test wickets41750
ODI wickets269
World Cup titles11
Five-wicket hauls25
Tests played103
Test average59.88
Test runs1,078
Test centuries4
Dominance w25%8486
Peak w20%9494
Longevity w20%8882
Honours w20%8688
Statistics w15%9294

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GOAT Rank · the data
Harbhajan88.4
Bakewell88.4
The people
Harbhajan
Bakewell

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