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Burke vs Burns

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BurkeWinner
78.3

Burke wins: Dominance, Honours

Burns
78.0

Burns wins: Longevity, Statistics

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇦🇺 Jim Burke
78.3

Burke leads in 3 of 5 weighted categories. Obdurate Australian opener of the 1950s with a century on debut.

1. Jim Burke
78.3
2. Rory Burns
78.0

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. 🇬🇧 Rory Burns5 years played · career day 1,825282 runs
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇦🇺 Jim Burke5 years played · career day 1,826263 runs
-6.7% vs Burns at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇦🇺 Burke004086198586
🇬🇧 Burns004596282608

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.

MetricBurkeRetiredBurnsActive
Test runs1,2801,789
Test centuries32
Test average34
First-class runs7,56314,000
Tests played2432
First-class centuries30
Dominance w25%7472
Peak w20%8484
Longevity w20%7880
Honours w20%7470
Statistics w15%8488

Fan vote — data vs the people

GOAT Rank · the data
Burke78.3
Burns78.0
The people
Burke
Burns

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