Dhaka Gladiators
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| Captain: |
 Shakib Al Hasan
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| Coach: |
Khaled Mahmud
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| City: | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Colours: |  |
| Owner: | Ahmed Shayan Fazlur Rahman (Beximco Group) |
| Founded: | 2012 (as Dhaka Gladiators); rebranded as Dynamites 2015 |
| Home ground: | Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Mirpur |
| Capacity: | 35,000 |
| Chief executive: | Obeid Nizam |
| Manager: | Azizur Rahim |
| Bangladesh Premier League wins: | 3 |
| Official website: | dhakadynamites |
The Dhaka Dynamites are a franchise cricket team that plays in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), representing the country's Dhaka Division. Following the 2015 competition, the Dynamites are one of the BPL's six existing members and are expected to participate in the league's 2016 edition. The team is headquartered at the Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium in Mirpur, and so is one of two teams playing in the city, alongside the Dhaka Division cricket team which is active in first-class cricket.
The team was originally established in 2012 for the inaugural BPL season as the Dhaka Gladiators and they won both the 2012 and 2013 editions of the tournament. The Gladiators were one of the teams dissolved in 2013 after the second edition. The franchise was sold to the current owners Beximco Group and rebranded as the Dynamites. Its theme song is Jadur Shohor Dhaka.
For the 2015 edition of the BPL, the Dynamites were coached by South African batsman Mickey Arthur, and captained by Kumar Sangakkara. Bangladeshi player Nasir Hossain was selected as the "icon" player of the team.
Dhaka Dynamites was originally founded in 2012 as the Dhaka Gladiators, one of the six founding members of the BPL. The team was purchased at the February 2012 auction by Europa Group for $5.05 million. The franchise was indefinitely suspended by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) after its involvement in a match-fixing scandal. In 2015, The team was sold to Beximco and rebranded as Dhaka Dynamites, reviving the name used for T20 by the Dhaka Division in 2010.
In the first two seasons, Mashrafe Bin Mortaza captained the team and Ian Pont was the head coach. Dhaka Gladiators started off their campaign disappointingly by losing against an experienced Khulna Royal Bengals which was led by all rounder Shakib Al Hasan. However this was succeeded by three consecutive wins even without players like Shahid Afridi and Saeed Ajmal. During their third victory against Barisal Burners, they made the highest total of the tournament by scoring 208 runs for five wickets. They defended this score, even though Chris Gayle scored a century for the Barisal Burners. Later in the tournament, they failed to chase mediocre targets due to batting collapses. In the final, Dhaka Gladiators beat the Barisal Burners to be crowned champions of BPL 2012.
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