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DeFreitas vs Childs

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DeFreitasWinner
79.1

DeFreitas wins: Dominance, Peak, Honours, Statistics

Childs
77.8

Childs wins: Longevity

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Phillip DeFreitas
79.1

DeFreitas leads in 4 of 5 weighted categories. 140 Test wickets for England across a 15-year international career.

1. Phillip DeFreitas
79.1
2. John Childs
77.8

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. 🇬🇧 John Childs5 years played · career day 1,825235 runs
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Phillip DeFreitas5 years played · career day 2,19067 runs
-71.5% vs Childs at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 DeFreitas0001251111
🇬🇧 Childs002055235505

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.

MetricDeFreitasRetiredChildsRetired
Test wickets140
Tests played442
ODI wickets115
First-class wickets1,2211,108
Test runs934
County Championship titles2
Career years22
Age on England debut36
Dominance w25%7066
Peak w20%8684
Longevity w20%8892
Honours w20%6866
Statistics w15%8886

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GOAT Rank · the data
DeFreitas79.1
Childs77.8
The people
DeFreitas
Childs

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