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Collingwood vs Mushtaq

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CollingwoodWinner
85.8

Collingwood wins: Longevity, Honours

Mushtaq
85.8

Mushtaq wins: Dominance, Peak, Statistics

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇬🇧 Paul Collingwood
85.8

Collingwood leads in 2 of 5 weighted categories. Captained England to the 2010 World Twenty20 title.

1. Paul Collingwood
85.8
2. Mushtaq Ahmed
85.8

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. 🇵🇰 Mushtaq Ahmed5 years played · career day 1,825286 runs
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇬🇧 Paul Collingwood5 years played · career day 1,826268 runs
-6.3% vs Mushtaq at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇬🇧 Collingwood004594206562
🇵🇰 Mushtaq004596286626

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.

MetricCollingwoodRetiredMushtaqRetired
World Twenty20 titles as captain1
Test runs4,259
One-day international runs5,092
Test centuries10
International caps264
World Cup titles1
Test wickets185
First-class wickets1,407
One-day international wickets161
Ten-wicket Test matches3
Dominance w25%7880
Peak w20%8890
Longevity w20%9086
Honours w20%8684
Statistics w15%9092

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GOAT Rank · the data
Collingwood85.8
Mushtaq85.8
The people
Collingwood
Mushtaq

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