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Ecclestone vs Stokes

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EcclestoneWinner
84.6

Ecclestone wins: Dominance, Statistics

Stokes
84.2

Stokes wins: Longevity

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇬🇧 Sophie Ecclestone
84.6

Ecclestone leads in 4 of 5 weighted categories. The world's leading women's spinner and a T20 World Cup winner.

1. Sophie Ecclestone
84.6
2. Ben Stokes
84.2

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. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ben Stokes5 years played · career day 2,921270 runs
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇬🇧 Sophie Ecclestone5 years played · career day 2,191145 runs
-46.3% vs Stokes at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇬🇧 Ecclestone0002080247
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Stokes000095330

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.

MetricEcclestoneActiveStokesActive
T20 World Cup titles1
ODI wickets100
T20 international wickets130
Commonwealth medals1
Months as No. 1 bowler50
World Cups1
World T20 titles1
Test runs6,500
Test wickets200
ICC Cricketer of the Year1
Test centuries13
Dominance w25%8682
Peak w20%9292
Longevity w20%7278
Honours w20%8484
Statistics w15%9086

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GOAT Rank · the data
Ecclestone84.6
Stokes84.2
The people
Ecclestone
Stokes

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