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Chanderpaul vs Jayasuriya

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ChanderpaulWinner
89.4

Chanderpaul wins: Longevity, Statistics

Jayasuriya
89.3

Jayasuriya wins: Dominance, Peak, Honours

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇬🇾 Shivnarine Chanderpaul
89.4

Chanderpaul leads in 2 of 5 weighted categories. Batted through two decades of West Indies cricket for 11,867 Test runs.

1. Shivnarine Chanderpaul
89.4
2. Sanath Jayasuriya
89.3

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.

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Career stage · GOAT pace

Through year 5 · Centuries per year
1. 🇬🇾 Shivnarine Chanderpaul5 years played · career day 1,825218 runs
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇱🇰 Sanath Jayasuriya5 years played · career day 2,555205 runs
-6.0% vs Chanderpaul at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇬🇾 Chanderpaul003574218472
🇱🇰 Jayasuriya0000105317

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.

MetricChanderpaulRetiredJayasuriyaRetired
Test runs11,8676,973
Tests played164
Test centuries30
Batting average51
ODI runs8,77813,430
ODI wickets323
World Cup titles1
Fastest ODI fifty (balls)17
Dominance w25%8486
Peak w20%9294
Longevity w20%9690
Honours w20%8286
Statistics w15%9692

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GOAT Rank · the data
Chanderpaul89.4
Jayasuriya89.3
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