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Holding vs Rohit

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HoldingWinner
87.5

Holding wins: Dominance, Peak, Honours

Rohit
84.8

Rohit wins: Longevity

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇯🇲 Michael Holding
87.5

Holding leads in 4 of 5 weighted categories. Whispering Death: 249 Test wickets in the great West Indies pace attack.

1. Michael Holding
87.5
2. Rohit Sharma
84.8

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. 🇮🇳 Rohit Sharma5 years played · career day 2,1912,640 runs
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇯🇲 Michael Holding5 years played · career day 2,921104 runs
-96.1% vs Rohit at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇯🇲 Holding000010122
🇮🇳 Rohit0004002,3005,440

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.

MetricHoldingRetiredRohitActive
Test wickets249
Tests played60
Best innings figures8
World Cup titles1
Test bowling average23.68
ODI runs11,000
ODI centuries32
T20 World Cup titles1
ODI double centuries3
IPL titles as captain5
Dominance w25%8882
Peak w20%9490
Longevity w20%7882
Honours w20%8882
Statistics w15%9090

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GOAT Rank · the data
Holding87.5
Rohit84.8
The people
Holding
Rohit

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