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Taylor vs Boult

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TaylorWinner
88.1

Taylor wins: Longevity, Statistics

Boult
88.0

Boult wins: Dominance, Peak, Honours

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇳🇿 Ross Taylor
88.1

Taylor leads in 2 of 5 weighted categories. World Test Championship winner and New Zealand's leading Test run-scorer.

1. Ross Taylor
88.1
2. Trent Boult
88.0

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. 🇳🇿 Ross Taylor5 years played · career day 2,190214 runs
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇳🇿 Trent Boult5 years played · career day 2,191158 runs
-26.2% vs Taylor at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇳🇿 Taylor00028158404
🇳🇿 Boult00018116278

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.

MetricTaylorRetiredBoultActive
World Test Championship titles11
Test runs7,683
ODI runs8,607
International centuries40
ODI matches236
Test wickets317
ODI wickets211
Test bowling average27.5
Five-wicket hauls10
Dominance w25%8286
Peak w20%9294
Longevity w20%9282
Honours w20%8286
Statistics w15%9694

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GOAT Rank · the data
Taylor88.1
Boult88.0
The people
Taylor
Boult

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