{"id":26585,"date":"2016-04-10T05:25:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T05:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=26585"},"modified":"2016-04-10T05:25:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T05:25:01","slug":"shikhar-dhawan-welcomes-dhoni-and-raina-s-new-teams-to-the-ipl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=26585","title":{"rendered":"Shikhar Dhawan welcomes Dhoni and Raina&#8217;s new teams to the IPL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-15980\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/shikhar-dhawan-odi.jpg\" alt=\"shikhar dhawan odi\" width=\"260\" height=\"160\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/shikhar-dhawan-odi.jpg 260w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/shikhar-dhawan-odi-150x92.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Mumbai: With the start of the 2016 season of the Indian Premier League only hours away, Shikhar Dhawan took to social media to welcome the 2 newest teams to the IPL lineup. In the video, Shikhar who is currently a part of the Sunrisers Hyderabad team, begins by giving a special welcome to the Pune Supergiants and the Gujrat Lions to the 9th edition of the IPL.<\/p>\n<p>He also went on to wish his team India colleagues, M.S.Dhoni and Suresh Raina all the best for the new season!<\/p>\n<p>Shikhar&rsquo;s special message come hours before the first game of this year&rsquo;s IPL where one of the new teams, the Pune Supergiants goes up against last year&rsquo;s IPL champs, the Mumbai Indians!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">All the best <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/msdhoni\">@msdhoni<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImRaina\">@ImRaina<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IPL\">@IPL<\/a> with your new teams!<br \/>Jam kar mukabla hoga!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RPSupergiants\">@RPSupergiants<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheGujaratLions\">@TheGujaratLions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uDrPb3njkC\">pic.twitter.com\/uDrPb3njkC<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shikhar Dhawan (@SDhawan25) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SDhawan25\/status\/718728412773220352\">April 9, 2016<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-15980\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/shikhar-dhawan-odi.jpg\" alt=\"shikhar dhawan odi\" width=\"260\" height=\"160\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/shikhar-dhawan-odi.jpg 260w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/shikhar-dhawan-odi-150x92.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Mumbai: With the start of the 2016 season of the Indian Premier League only hours away, Shikhar Dhawan took to social media to welcome the 2 newest teams to the IPL lineup. In the video, Shikhar who is currently a part of the Sunrisers Hyderabad team, begins by giving a special welcome to the Pune Supergiants and the Gujrat Lions to the 9th edition of the IPL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[15919,466,622,15918,1287,810],"class_list":["post-26585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket-cricket","tag-gujrat-lions","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-mahendra-singh-dhoni","tag-pune-supergiants","tag-shikhar-dhawan","tag-suresh-raina"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shikhar Dhawan welcomes Dhoni and Raina&#039;s new teams to the IPL - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=26585\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shikhar Dhawan welcomes Dhoni and Raina&#039;s new teams to the IPL - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mumbai: With the start of the 2016 season of the Indian Premier League only hours away, Shikhar Dhawan took to social media to welcome the 2 newest teams to the IPL lineup. 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