Bangladesh beat Zimbabwe by 7 wickets in the final ODI to seal three match series 3-0 here on Friday.
Chasing the target of 287 runs, hosts ride on brilliant centuries by Imrul Kayes and Soumya Sarkar to complete series sweep.
After losing Liton Das on the very first ball of the innings, duo of Sarkar and Kayes batted sensibly and added 220 runs for the second wicket before Sarkar was out by Masakadza after scoring 117 off 92 balls.
While his partner Imrul was out in the 40th over for 115 runs of 112 balls.
After their dispersal, Rahim and Mithun took hosts to the target with 7.5 overs to spare.
This was Bangladesh anothe r epic display of performance after the country reached the Asia Cup finals before losing to India in the last ball of the tournament.
While Sarkar was named man of the match for his display, Kayes bagged Man of the series award.
The two sides will now fetaure in Test match series.
After the win, B’desh skipper Mortaza says, “ Coming back from Asia cup, we had a lot of confidence. The dressing room confidence was also very high and I think it was phenomenal. We have been decent with the ball and it is a good wicket and today we played with our inexperienced bowling line-up, but still to restrict them to 286 was a good effort. I hope our Test team does well in the coming series.”
Earlier, batting first Sean Williams struck an unbeaten hundred to guide Zimbabwe to 286-5 in the third one-day international against Bangladesh in Chittagong on Friday.
Williams hit a career best 129 off 143 balls, and shared 132 runs with Brendan Taylor for the third wicket — helping Zimbabwe recover from 6-2 to post their highest score at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium after they were sent in.
Needing a win to avoid a whitewash in the three-match series, Taylor made 75, his second successive fifty in the series, which came from 72 balls with eights fours and two sixes.
Williams — who smashed 10 fours and a six in his second ODI hundred — then added 84 runs with Sikandar Raza (40) for the fourth wicket after Taylor fell to left-arm spinner Nazmul Hossain.
Nazmul was the pick of the Bangladeshi bowlers with 2-58. Bangladesh won the first two matches of the series by 28 runs and seven wickets respectively.