Club: | Dhaka Platoon |
Season: | 2019–20 |
Coach: | Mohammad Salahuddin |
Captain: | Mashrafe Mortaza |
Ground: | Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Dhaka |
Most Runs: | Tamim Iqbal (396) |
Most Wickets: | Mahedi Hasan (12) |
Most Catches: | Shadab Khan (5) |
Most Dismissals: | Anamul Haque (9) |
Prevseason: | 2019 |
The Dhaka Platoon (Dhakaiya/bn|ঢাকা প্লাটুন), formerly known as the Dhaka Dynamites, is a franchise cricket team that plays in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), representing the country's Dhaka Division. Following the 2012 competition, the Platoon are one of the BPL's seven existing members. The team is headquartered at the Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium in Mirpur, and so is one of three teams playing in the city, alongside the Dhaka Division cricket team and Dhaka Metropolis cricket team which are active in first-class cricket.
The 2019–20 season was the 7th season for the Bangladesh Premier League franchise Dhaka Platoon. They were one of the seven teams that competed in the 2019—20 Bangladesh Premier League.[1] The franchise previously qualified for the BPL playoffs in 2015 and 2017 and won the tournament in 2012, 2013 and 2016.[2] [3]
The ownership of the team was acquired by Ahmed Shayan Fazlur Rahman's Beximco Group.[4] The league was later replaced with Bangladesh Premier League, with the ownership of the franchise being awarded to Europa Group under the name of Dhaka Gladiators for US$5.05 million. After multiple corruption charges against the owners, the team was re-acquired by Beximco Group in 2015. Later in 2019 Jamuna Bank acquired the team's sponsorship, with Gazi Golam Murtoza as the team director.[5]