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What nickname did Gautam Gambhir give Suryakumar Yadav?

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Cricketer Suryakumar Yadav was nicknamed SKY in 2014 when he was playing in the Indian Premier League for the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). In a 2023 interview posted by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, Yadav revealed that Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir, who was the captain of KKR at the time, came up with the nickname.