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Crowe vs Appleyard

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CroweWinner
84.4

Crowe wins: Longevity

Appleyard
84.4

Appleyard wins: Dominance, Peak, Statistics

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇳🇿 Martin Crowe
84.4

Crowe leads in 2 of 5 weighted categories. New Zealand's finest batter of his era with 17 Test centuries and a best of 299.

1. Martin Crowe
84.4
2. Bob Appleyard
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. 🇳🇿 Martin Crowe5 years played · career day 1,825243 runs
-38.9% vs Appleyard at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇳🇿 Crowe003577243559
🇬🇧 Appleyard0060158398592

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.

MetricCroweRetiredAppleyardRetired
Test runs5,444
Test centuries17
Tests played77
Highest score299
ODI runs4,704
Wickets in debut season200
First-class wickets708
First-class average15
Test wickets31
Tests lost0
Dominance w25%8286
Peak w20%9294
Longevity w20%8070
Honours w20%8080
Statistics w15%9094

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GOAT Rank · the data
Crowe84.4
Appleyard84.4
The people
Crowe
Appleyard

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