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Blunt vs Darling

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BluntWinner
84.4

Blunt wins: Peak, Longevity, Statistics

Darling
84.3

Darling wins: Dominance, Honours

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇳🇿 Roger Blunt
84.4

Blunt leads in 3 of 5 weighted categories. One of New Zealand's first Test all-rounders and a triple centurion.

1. Roger Blunt
84.4
2. Joe Darling
84.3

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. 🇳🇿 Roger Blunt5 years played · career day 1,825293 runs
-0.3% vs Darling at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇳🇿 Blunt0050104293605
🇦🇺 Darling004597294718

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.

MetricBluntRetiredDarlingRetired
Test appearances9
Test runs3301,657
First-class runs9,06910,635
First-class wickets236
Highest score338
Ashes series won as captain3
Tests played34
Test centuries3
Dominance w25%8082
Peak w20%9088
Longevity w20%8482
Honours w20%8286
Statistics w15%8884

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GOAT Rank · the data
Blunt84.4
Darling84.3
The people
Blunt
Darling

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