Harry Kane wins December Player of the Month after eight goals in six for Tottenham... as he equals Steven Gerrard's Premier League record

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Harry Kane has equalled Steven Gerrard's record of six Premier League Player of the Month awards after winning December's prize.

The Tottenham striker scored eight goals in six matches, including back-to-back hat-tricks against Burnley and Southampton in a vintage month.

He set a record of 39 Premier League goals in a calendar year in the process and has now joined the former Liverpool captain in the history books.

Harry Kane proudly shows off his Premier League Player of the Month award for December

Kane poses with his EA Sports stats card after topping an eight-man shortlist

Kane admitted he was proud of the award as he gets set to return to league action in Spurs' home clash with Everton this weekend. 

'It's amazing, very proud of that,' Kane said of matching Gerrard.

'I'd probably say my favourite goal was the one that broke the [calendar year] record against Southampton,' he added.

Kane scored eight goals in six games to claim his sixth Player of the Month award

The England striker scored back-to-back hat-tricks against Burnley and Southampton

'Obviously there's a lot of talk before the game about whether I'd do it or not so to get that goal early on in the game as well, it was a great achievement.'

Gerrard won the first of his Player of the Month awards in March 2001, and his final one came 13 years later.

Kane topped a shortlist that included Chelsea wing-back Marcos Alonso, West Ham United's Marko Arnautovic, Liverpool duo Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah, Jesse Lingard of Manchester United, Leicester City's Riyad Mahrez and Manchester City defender Nicolas Otamendi. 

He equals Steven Gerrard's record of six, the last of which he claimed in March 2014