Litton Das top-scored with 53 not out as Bangladesh defeated Afghanistan by seven wickets to keep away from a sequence whitewash in Tuesday’s third and last one-day worldwide in Chittagong. The hosts raced to 129-Three in 23.Three overs after Shoriful Islam’s profession greatest 4-21 helped them bowl out Afghanistan for 126 in 45.2 overs. Tail-ender Azmatullah Omarzai provided some late resistance for Afghanistan to top-score with 56, his maiden ODI fifty. Left-arm seamer Fazalhaq Farooqi gave Afghanistan a glimmer of hope, bowling out Naim Sheikh for a duck and Najmul Hossain for 11. Liton and Shakib Al Hasan placed on 61 runs for the third wicket to regular the innings and produce Bangladesh again into management.
Shakib fell to Mohammad Nabi after making a run-a-ball 39, however Liton, who struck three fours and two sixes in his 60-ball innings, took Bangladesh dwelling.
Younger Towhid Hridoy hit the profitable boundary off Zia-ur-Rehman to remain unbeaten on 22.
“There will likely be wins and losses… that is what occurred to us within the first two video games. We tried to show that we had been the higher crew within the final sport,” stated Bangladesh pacer Shoriful Islam.
“It feels good…. I used to be supported by the entire crew so it was a very good efficiency.”
The vacationers earlier gained the toss and elected to bat first, however by no means managed to get their innings going.
“The fellows did not execute, they did not regulate to the situations,” stated Afghanistan coach Jonathan Trott.
Shoriful struck early after taking the sphere for the primary time this sequence, dismissing Ibrahim Zadran for one and Rahmat Shah for a duck within the third over.
Rahmanullah Gurbaz, who smashed a career-best 145 within the earlier match, noticed one catch land in no man’s land however quickly top-edged Taskin Ahmed to depart for six.
Shoriful compounded Afghanistan’s woes by trapping Nabi leg-before to depart the vacationers teetering at 15-Four inside 9 overs.
“They performed unhealthy pictures, the mentality wasn’t proper at this time — we saved dropping wickets,” Trott added.
“We by no means had a partnership — you want that massive partnership when rebuilding your innings from 15 or 20 for 4.”
Hashmatullah Shahidi and Najibullah Zadran stemmed the rot, however Shakib despatched again the latter for 10 to cease their partnership from creating.
Shahidi dragged one off Taijul Islam onto his stumps to finish his affected person knock of 22 from 54 balls.
Omarzai helped Afghanistan previous the 100-run mark after the short departure of debutants Abdul Rahman (4) and Zia (5).
He was the final man dismissed, holing out a catch to Naim Sheikh at long-off off Taskin, who claimed 2-23.
Afghanistan are already solely the second crew to win an ODI sequence in Bangladesh prior to now seven years, with world champions England being the opposite.
Victory within the match would have made them the primary facet to win all three matches of an ODI sequence in Bangladesh since Sri Lanka in 2014.
Following the ODI sequence are two T20s in Bangladesh’s northeastern metropolis of Sylhet on July 14 and 16.
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