Dhaka Leopards are a Bangladeshi

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team that has played

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in the Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League. Dhaka Leopards competed for the first time in the

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. Captained by Junaid Siddique, they played their first match against the previous season's premiers, Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club, on 15 March 2023, losing by eight wickets. They did not achieve their first victory until the ninth round, when they beat

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by 76 runs,

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taking 6 for 30, the first time any of their bowlers had taken more than three wickets in an innings. In their next match two days later, which they lost by one run to

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scored their first

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, scoring 128

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. They won only one of their 13 matches and finished at the bottom of the league table, and were thus relegated for the 2023–24 season.

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