Liton Das hit a century and shared a record 202-run partnership with Mushfiqur Rahim to register an 88-run win for Bangladesh in the second One Day International against Afghanistan in Chittagong on Friday.
Liton’s 136 off 126 balls at the Zahoor Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium took the hosts 306-4 before they bowled out the visitors for 218 to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series .
Mushfiqur scored 86 off 93 balls to play his part before Taskin Ahmed (2-31) and Shakib Al Hasan (2-38) along with other bowlers wrapped up Afghanistan’s innings in 45.1 overs.
Afghanistan lost their first three wickets cheaply and Najibullah Zadran (54) and Rahmat Shah (52) shared an 89-run stand for the fourth wicket to humiliate them 34-3.
But Taskin broke the partnership by bowling Shah and then dismissed Jadran and kept Bangladesh firmly in control.
Bangladesh were in early trouble when they opted to bat only for left-arm pacer Fazlhaq Farooqui and Tamim Iqbal on leg-before 12 and Rashid Khan on his second ball to dismiss Shakib (20). Trapped.
But Litton and Mushfiqur held the ship steady.
Liton completed his fifth ODI century by hitting a boundary off Rashid and hitting 16 fours and two sixes in his innings.
Farid Ahmed dismissed Liton and Mushfiqur in successive deliveries, but not before they crossed Bangladesh’s previous highest ODI partnership of 176 runs, set by Tamim and Mushfiqur against Pakistan in 2015.
Bangladesh captain Tamim said, “The partnership that Liton and Mushi built was amazing. Although we didn’t do well with the bat, the bowlers worked for us.”
Playing his first match in the series, Farid finished with 2-56 for Afghanistan.
Afghanistan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi said, “We lost a little too much in the opening overs and then the partnership between Mushi and Liton took the game away from us.”
It was the second Bangladesh partnership record of the series, after a four-wicket win in the first match on Wednesday following a seventh-wicket stand between Afif Hossain and Mehdi Hasan.
The third and last match of the series will be played at this ground on Monday.
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