New: India's seasoned ODI opener Shikhar Dhawan, who was one of the batting lynch-pin's of the pretty successful Sunrisers Hyderabad team for 8 seasons, had somekind of a homecoming as he returned back to his Delhi Daredevils in the last edition of the IPL and had a fruitful season with the willow by notching up 521 runs in 16 matches at an average of 34.73.

Dhawan's move to Delhi also turned around a horrid spell of run for the Delhi Capital'as the IPL franchisee made the play-offs for the first time after seven years and finished third, losing to Chennai Super Kings in the play-offs.

Dhawan has now expressed his desire to go a step further and win the IPL trophy for his home team. Dhawan said: "I always think of winning IPL, especially our team is so good. The vision becomes stronger day by day.

"Definitely we will win the IPL and bring the trophy home. The fans truly deserve it. They have always packed the stadiums, supported us throughout. We did so well we will keep bettering from here on."

Former captains Ricky Ponting and Sourav Ganguly also played a big role off the field as head coach and mentor as Dhawan said there was a lot to learn from them.

"It was a great experience with them. Both of are great legends, great captains. I learnt a lot about leadership quality from them, how they back their players and build the team," said Dhawan.

"They always gave the same attention to everyone, be it seniors and juniors, there was equal treatment to all. They're always ready to put in hard work whenever the team needed."