Sameer Rizvi joined Virat Kohli and Jos Buttler among others in an elite list of players to win three consecutive Player-of-the-Match awards in the IPL.

Jacques Kallis

The first to achieve the feat got there in 2010. Kallis, playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore (now Royal Challengers Bengaluru) started with a 55-ball 89* and 1 for 39 against Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings) as RCB chased down 204 with seven balls to spare. He followed it up with an all-round effort against Rajasthan Royals, making 44* off 34 and taking 2 for 20 in a dominant ten-wicket win, and finished off with a 55-ball 66* and a 1 for 35 against Mumbai Indians to help them comfortably chase down 152.

Virender Sehwag

Sehwag bagged the awards in 2012 at Pune and Delhi Daredevils (now Delhi Capitals) as captain. The first one came in a chase: an unbeaten 87 against Pune Warriors to take DD home with 24 balls to spare. The next two came while batting first: a 39-ball 73 against Mumbai Indians to take DD over 200, lpand capped it off with a 39-ball 63 to set up a thrilling one-run win against Rajasthan Royals.

Aaron Finch

Three match-winning fifties from Finch earned him three consecutive awards. Playing for Gujarat Lions, Finch took down KXIP, Rising Pune Supergiants and MI. All of them came in chases - 162, 164 and 144 respectively. The slowest was arguably the best as his 54-ball 67* took Lions home off the final ball against MI in Wankhede.

Virat Kohli

Kohli's hat-trick of awards came during his incredible season in 2016 that yielded a

record 973 runs at an average of 81.08. Two contrasting fifties, with strike rates of 147 and 120 took RCB home against Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Daredevils. The chase master's most memorable knock was a 50-ball 113 against KXIP with 12 fours and eight sixes.

Jos Buttler

Buttler lived every opener's dream in 2018, batting through the innings twice and scoring above 80 in three successive games. The first two, against KXIP (82) and Chennai Super Kings (95*) were dominated by fours - 9 and 11 respectively with only three sixes in total. The sixes came against MI, five of them, in a 53-ball 94* to help RR chase down 169 comfortably.

Ruturaj Gaikwad

Gaikwad earned his hat-trick of awards during the second-half of IPL 2020, his maiden IPL season. His three fifties ensured CSK chased down three totals in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. First a 65* against RCB, followed by a 72 against KKR and a 65* against KXIP to finish.

Sameer Rizvi

This one came across two seasons and the last two performances were as an impact player. Rizvi closed out DC's IPL 2025 campaign with a 25-ball 58* to chase down 207 against Punjab Kings and went on to begin the 2026 campaign with a 47-ball 70 against Lucknow Super Giants. He topped that by taking down the MI attack with a 51-ball 90 in Delhi.