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Southee vs Holding

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SoutheeWinner
87.8

Southee wins: Longevity, Statistics

Holding
87.5

Holding wins: Dominance, Peak, Honours

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇳🇿 Tim Southee
87.8

Southee leads in 2 of 5 weighted categories. New Zealand's leading Test wicket-taker among seamers with a World Test Championship title.

1. Tim Southee
87.8
2. Michael Holding
87.5

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. 🇯🇲 Michael Holding5 years played · career day 2,921104 runs
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇳🇿 Tim Southee5 years played · career day 1,826102 runs
-1.9% vs Holding at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇳🇿 Southee00102470258
🇯🇲 Holding000010122

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.

MetricSoutheeRetiredHoldingRetired
Test wickets391249
ODI wickets221
Tests played10760
World Test Championship titles1
Five-wicket hauls15
Best innings figures8
World Cup titles1
Test bowling average23.68
Dominance w25%8288
Peak w20%9094
Longevity w20%9278
Honours w20%8488
Statistics w15%9490

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GOAT Rank · the data
Southee87.8
Holding87.5
The people
Southee
Holding

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