Nicknames of some Famous Cricketer :

Nickname: A usually descriptive name given instead of or in addition to the one belonging to a person, place, or thing.

Cricket has a rich tradition of using nicknames. This is a list of nicknames used in international cricket.

Steve Bucknor — Slow Death Bucknor
Rahul Dravid — The Wall, Mr. Dependable
Shahid Afridi — Boom Boom Afridi, Lala
Shoaib Akhtar — Rawalpindi Express
Ian Bell — Belly
Don Bradman — The Don
Stuart Broad — Westlife
Ian Chappell — Chappelli
Michael Clarke— Pup, Clarkey
Alastair Cook— Chef, Captain Cook
Shikhar Dhawan — Gabbar
AB de Villiers — AB, Mr. 360 Degree
Kapil Dev — The Haryana Hurricane
Allan Donald — White Lightning
Mahendra Singh Dhoni — MSD, CAPTAIN COOL
James Faulkner — The Finisher
Andrew Flintoff — Freddie
Sourav Ganguly — Dada, Prince of Kolkata, God of Offside
Chris Gayle — World Boss, Universe Boss
Adam Gilchrist — Gilly, Churchy
Jason Gillespie — Dizzy
Herschelle Gibbs — Scooter
Gautam Gambhir — Gauti
Ashley Giles — Gilo, Skinny, Splash, Wheelie Bin
Umar Gul – Guldozer
Brad Haddin — BJ, Hadds
Stephen Harmison — Harmy
John Hastings — The Duke
Matthew Hayden — Haydos, Big Fish
Michael Hussey — Mr. Cricket
Virat Kohli – Chiku, RunMachine, King Kohli, The Blue Death
Zaheer Khan – Zak
Anil Kumble — Jumbo
V V S Laxman — Very Very Special
Brett Lee — Bing, Binga, The Speedster
Clive Lloyd — Super Cat
Lasith Malinga — Malinga The Slinga
Angelo Mathews — Angie, Superman
Glenn McGrath — Pigeon
Muttiah Muralitharan — Murali
Monty Panesar — The Mont-ster, Python, The Beard to be Feared, The Sikh of Tweak
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi — Tiger
Ricky Ponting — Punter
Joe Root — Rooty/The Run Machine
Ajinkya Rahane — Jinks
Jonty Rhodes — Sparrow
Virender Sehwag — Viru, Nawab of Najafgarh, Sultan of Multan,
Sandeep Sharma — Sandu
Harbhajan Singh — Bhajji, Turbanator
Rohit Sharma — Hit-Man
Sachin Tendulkar — Little Master, Master Blaster
Inzamam-ul-Haq — Inzi
Misbah-ul-Haq – Lone warrior, Tuk tuk King, Man of Crisis
Murali Vijay — Monk
Yuvraj Singh —Yuvi, Prince
Chris Woakes – Wizard