Litton Das top-scored with 53 not out as Bangladesh defeated Afghanistan by seven wickets to keep away from a collection whitewash in Tuesday’s third and ultimate one-day worldwide in Chittagong. The hosts raced to 129-3 in 23.3 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.

Young Towhid Hridoy hit the successful boundary off Zia-ur-Rehman to remain unbeaten on 22.

“There will be wins and losses… that’s what happened to us in the first two games. We tried to prove that we were the better team in the last game,” stated Bangladesh pacer Shoriful Islam.

“It feels good…. I was supported by the whole team so it was a good performance.”

The vacationers earlier gained the toss and elected to bat first, however by no means managed to get their innings going.

“The guys didn’t execute, they didn’t adjust to the conditions,”  stated Afghanistan coach Jonathan Trott.

Shoriful struck early after taking the sector for the primary time this collection, 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 15-4 inside 9 overs.

“They played bad shots, the mentality wasn’t right today — we kept losing wickets,” Trott added.

“We never had a partnership — you need that big partnership when rebuilding your innings from 15 or 20 for four.”

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 twenty-two from 54 balls.

Omarzai helped Afghanistan previous the 100-run mark after the fast 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 group to win an ODI collection in Bangladesh prior to now seven years, with world champions England being the opposite.

Victory within the match would have made them the primary aspect to win all three matches of an ODI collection in Bangladesh since Sri Lanka in 2014.

Following the ODI collection are two T20s in Bangladesh’s northeastern metropolis of Sylhet on July 14 and 16.

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