Sameer Rizvi

The arrival

Sameer Rizvi arrived through the auction: Chennai Super Kings paid ₹8.40 cr, against a base price of ₹20 lakh. That debut came after going unsold twice (2022 and 2023).

That first season brought 8 matches and 51 runs. The best was still to come.

The peak

The high point with the bat was 2026, for Delhi Capitals: 252 runs at an average of 36.0, striking at 147.4 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 156.5, with 2 fifties, and a highest score of 90.

Franchise by franchise

2024, Chennai Super Kings. Bought at the 2024 auction for ₹8.40 cr. 8 matches and 51 runs.

2025 to 2026, Delhi Capitals. Bought at the 2025 auction for ₹95 lakh. 17 matches and 373 runs.

2 spells with two franchises in all. The longest was with Delhi Capitals, 2025 to 2026.

How the runs came

Across the career, Sameer Rizvi has struck at 144.7. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 154.6, so Sameer Rizvi has scored about 10 runs per hundred balls slower than the typical batter of the time. 65% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 30 fours and 26 sixes.

The fielding record: 9 catches and 1 run-out.

At the auction

Sameer Rizvi has gone under the hammer four times, bought twice and left unsold twice. The highest price was ₹8.40 cr, paid by Chennai Super Kings in 2024, more than 42 times the base price. The market cooled over time: the last purchase, in 2025, cost ₹95 lakh. Unsold in 2022, Sameer Rizvi was bought in 2024 by Chennai Super Kings.

Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.

Where it stands

Sameer Rizvi has made 25 IPL appearances, the latest for Delhi Capitals in 2026, and has won 3 player-of-the-match awards.