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Brook vs Babar

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BrookWinner
83.2

Brook wins: Peak, Honours

Babar
83.2

Babar wins: Longevity

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇬🇧 Harry Brook
83.2

Brook leads in 4 of 5 weighted categories. Fastest England batter to 1,000 Test runs in the modern era.

1. Harry Brook
83.2
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. 🇬🇧 Harry Brook5 years played · career day 1,826311 runs
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇵🇰 Babar Azam5 years played · career day 1,825285 runs
-8.4% vs Brook at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇬🇧 Brook004599232675
🇵🇰 Babar004597285498

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.

MetricBrookActiveBabarActive
Test centuries99
Test runs2,500
Test average56
Player of the Series awards3
Twenty20 international runs900
ODI centuries19
T20I runs4,223
ODI batting average56
Months as world No. 130
Dominance w25%8484
Peak w20%9492
Longevity w20%6872
Honours w20%8078
Statistics w15%9292

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GOAT Rank · the data
Brook83.2
Babar83.2
The people
Brook
Babar

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