Dhaka Dynamites

Season one

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.

Summary

Group record
Matches	Wins	Losses	No result	Run rate	Summary
10	5	5	0	+0.928	3rd (of 6)
Most Runs
Player	Innings	Runs	Average	Strike Rate	Highest Score
Imran Nazir	11	390	43.99	156.00	75
Most Wickets
Players	Matches	Wickets	Average	Economy	Best Figure
Elias Sunny	12	17	14.88	6.71	3/17

Season two

For the 2012/13 season, Dhaka Gladiators bought all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan who was the most expensive player and the captain in the tournament. They bought fast bowler Mashrafe Mortaza, the emerging wicket keeper Anamul Haque and more. They also bought South African pace bowler Alfonso Thomas, and West Indians Kieron Pollard and Chris Gayle who were only available for one game. They bought English players Luke Wright, Owais Shah, Darren Stevens, bowler Chris Liddle and batsman Josh Cobb. This team of players were crowned 2013 champions, just as they had been in 2012. They played 14 games, won 11 and lost only 3. This time their strongest opponent was Sylhet Royals.^[4]

Summary

Season record
Matches	Wins	Losses	No result	Run rate	Summary
12	9	3	0	+0.928	1st (of 7)
Most Runs
Player	Innings	Runs	Average	Strike Rate	Highest Score
Mohammad Ashraful	13	358	29.83	121.76	103*
Most Wickets
Players	Matches	Wickets	Average	Economy	Best Figure
Alfonso Thomas	12	20	14.90	6.79	3/19

Season three

Dhaka Dynamites was introduced in a new look in 2015. During the player draft, Kumar Sangakkara was selected as the captain while Nasir Hossain was picked as the "icon" player. A total of eighteen players was selected in the draft process. The notable players in and out of the draft the purchased were, Mustafizur Rahman, Yasir Shah, Mohammad Hafeez and Ryan ten Doeschate and Mohammad Irfan

They started off rather smoothly by defeating Comilla Victorians and Chittagong Vikings but lost their way through defeats against Rangpur Riders and Barisal Bulls. Luckily, they finished at 4th place out of 6 teams but lost against the Bulls in the eliminator

Summary

Season record
Matches	Wins	Losses	No result	Run rate	Summary
10	4	6	0	-0.010	4th (of 6)
Most Runs
Player	Innings	Runs	Average	Strike Rate	Highest Score
Kumar Sangakkara	10	349	38.77	117.11	75
Nasir Hossain	11	193	19.30	102.65	33
Mosaddek Hossain	7	116	23.20	94.30	30*
Most Wickets
Players	Matches	Wickets	Average	Economy	Best Figure
Mosharraf Hossain	10	16	10.31	6.11	4/16
Mustafizur Rahman	10	14	15.28	5.70	3/14
Abul Hasan	10	11	22.09	8.37	3/29

Season four

After having an average season at BPL 3, the Dynamites started the fourth season with a strong team including the likes of Shakib Al Hasan, Andre Russell, Dwayne Bravo, Kumar Sangakkara, Mosaddek Hossain, Evin Lewis, Mahela Jayawardene, Wayne Parnell and Ravi Bopara. They started their campaign with winning against Barisal Bulls. On their way, they were only defeated by the Rajshahi Kings and Khulna Titans. They defeated the Titans in the first qualifier in order to be one of the two finalists, the other being Rajshahi Kings.

Dwayne Bravo became the highest wicket taker of the tournament. While Kumar Sangakkara scored most runs for them.

Summary

Season record
Matches	Wins	Losses	No result	Run rate	Summary
12	8	4	0	+0.912	1st (of 7)
Most Runs
Player	Innings	Runs	Average	Strike Rate	Highest Score
Kumar Sangakkara	13	370	28.46	115.62	66
Mehedi Maruf	14	347	26.65	135.54	75*
Mosaddek Hossain	14	304	33.77	124.08	59*
Most Wickets
Players	Matches	Wickets	Average	Economy	Best Figure
Dwayne Bravo	13	21	19.95	7.55	3/10
Mohammad Shahid	8	15	12.46	6.88	3/21
Shakib Al Hasan	14	13	26.30	6.84	2/11

Season five

The team has signed many new foreign players among whom Shahid Afridi, Shane Watson, Mohammad Amir and Sunil Narine are worth mentioning. They retained Md. Shahid, Mosaddek Hossain and Mehedi Maruf from the local category while they retained Kumar Sangakkara, Evin Lewis and Ronsford Beaton from the overseas department. They also extended the contract of ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan as their icon player. ^[5]

They got the second pick in the local and overseas pick in the draft, choosing pacer Abu Hider and English batsman Joe Denly respectively. Their surprise picks were pacers Syed Khaled Ahmed, Noor Alam Saddam, batsman Shadman Islam and little-known West Indian orthodox spinner Akeal Hosein.

Season six

All the franchises were given until 30th September 2018 to submit their 4 retained cricketers. Dhaka Dynamites retained Shakib Al Hasan, Kieron Pollard, Sunil Narine and Rovman Powell. All Franchises were also allowed to buy 2 foreign players pre-draft but they can’t be the ones who played for the team last season. Dhaka Dynamites bought English opener Jason Roy and Caribbean all-rounder Andre Russell.

Former head coaches

• Ian Pont (2012-13)
• Mickey Arthur (2015)