Bangladesh batsman Mushfiqur Rahim has been honored with the Statsguru Award as the Most Consistent Test Batsman.

In 16 innings in 2017, Mushfiqur scored 766 runs at 54.71. Only once was he dismissed for a single-digit score, and he had only two other dismissals before making 20 runs. In ten innings, he went past 25.

The former Bangladesh skipper’s standard deviation - which is a measure of the average distance from the mean - was an impressive 41.47. That combined with his average of 54.71 gave him a consistency factor (average divided by standard deviation) of 1.32, which was the best among all batsmen who scored 750-plus Test runs in 2016.

Australia captain Steve Smith was next batsman on the list followed by two India batsman, Cheteshwar Pujara and ViraT Kohli. Smith had three single-digit dismissals in 20 innings, and 13 scores of more than 25.

Pujara was pretty consistent too, with a factor of 1.17, but Kohli's was only 0.94: though he had three double-hundreds in the year, eight times he was dismissed for 15 or fewer runs.