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Darling vs Stokes

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DarlingWinner
84.3

Darling wins: Longevity, Honours

Stokes
84.2

Stokes wins: Peak, Statistics

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇦🇺 Joe Darling
84.3

Darling leads in 3 of 5 weighted categories. Captained Australia to three Ashes series wins.

1. Joe Darling
84.3
2. Ben Stokes
84.2

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. 🇦🇺 Joe Darling5 years played · career day 1,825294 runs
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ben Stokes5 years played · career day 2,921270 runs
-8.2% vs Darling at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇦🇺 Darling004597294718
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Stokes000095330

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.

MetricDarlingRetiredStokesActive
Ashes series won as captain3
Tests played34
Test runs1,6576,500
First-class runs10,635
Test centuries313
World Cups1
World T20 titles1
Test wickets200
ICC Cricketer of the Year1
Dominance w25%8282
Peak w20%8892
Longevity w20%8278
Honours w20%8684
Statistics w15%8486

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GOAT Rank · the data
Darling84.3
Stokes84.2
The people
Darling
Stokes

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