BAN VS AFG - 3rd ODI, Afghanistan tour of Bangladesh, 2023

Shahidi collects the trophy, poses for the photographs and then join his team-mates who are standing behind the WINNER hoarding. All smiles in the Afghanistan camp. Bangladesh won the one-off Test convincingly but Afghanistan roared back in style to register their first-ever ODI series win against Bangladesh. This is a big achievement for Shahidi and Co. as this is only Bangladesh's second ODI series loss since 2015. On that note, it's time to bring the curtains down. The action shifts to Sylhet for the shortest format. Tune in on Friday for the first of the two T20Is. Until then, goodbye!

Hashmatullah Shahidi | Afghanistan captain: Very happy with the performance of the team. Today was tough, we lost this game but we'll learn from this. Bangladesh played really well, they put under pressure from the beginning. I'll not be part of the T20 squad but best wishes to the team. Special thanks to the fans, they support us wherever we go.

Litton Das | Bangladesh captain: Before the next T20 series, this his helpful for us. Boys did a good job. We used the new ball well. All the bowlers bowled really well. They didn't have too many runs on the board. We were okay to bat patiently.

Fazalhaq Farooqi | Player of the Series: Struggled in the Sri Lanka series, I worked very hard and prepared really well in Abu Dhabi. I tried too many things in Sri Lanka. I just wanted to bowl in the right areas and that's why I was successful here.

Shoriful Islam | Player of the Match: Happy, worked very hard. I've been listening to Allan Donald's advice. The bowling partnership with Taskin really helped me.

19:32 Local Time, 13:32 GMT, 19:02 IST: A pretty straightforward chase for Bangladesh and they avoid the series whitewash. They lost a couple of wickets in the first powerplay with Fazalhaq Farooqi - the leading wicket-taker of the series - removing Naim and Shanto. At 28/2, the two senior players - Litton Das and Shakib - joined hands and forged a half-century partnership calmly. Shakib fell to Nabi trying to play a big shot but the Bangladesh captain brought up his fifty and remained unbeaten till the end as the hosts chased down the total with 26.3 overs to spare. This win was set up by their bowlers. Shoriful and Taskin ran riot with the new ball restricting their opponents to 15/4. Post that, the spinners continued to do the good work as they kept a tight lid on the scoring rate. Azmatullah fought a lone battle, registered his maiden ODI fifty and ensured that his team got to three-digits but 126 was nowhere close to being competitive. Stay tuned for the presentations

Zia-ur-Rehman to Towhid Hridoy, FOUR, Bangladesh win by 7 wickets! Slightly short, Towhid Hridoy backs away to cut it in front of square on the off-side

Zia-ur-Rehman to Towhid Hridoy, no run, hint of away spin, knocked back to the bowler

Zia-ur-Rehman to Towhid Hridoy, no run, 86kph, pad-lined, Towhid Hridoy misses the flick to wear it on the pad

Mujeeb to Litton Das, no run, 100.5kph, keeps a shade low outside off and Litton Das misses the cut

Mujeeb to Litton Das, no run, 104.4kph, quick and on a length around off, Litton Das defends

Mujeeb to Towhid Hridoy, 1 run, googly, punched straight down the ground. Long-on mops it up

Mujeeb to Litton Das, 1 run, very full, driven along the ground to sweeper cover

Mujeeb to Litton Das, FOUR, fifty for Litton Das! Trifle short and Litton Das pounces. Fetches it from outside off and pulls it over mid-wicket

Mujeeb to Litton Das, no run, 90.5kph, in-dart, skids off the deck and Litton Das brings his bat down just in time to keep it out on the leg-side

Zia-ur-Rehman to Towhid Hridoy, no run, drifting in on middle and Towhid Hridoy defends it into the leg-side

Zia-ur-Rehman to Litton Das, 1 run, in-drifter on leg, glanced towards square leg

Zia-ur-Rehman to Towhid Hridoy, 1 run, spinning away from a length, Towhid Hridoy goes back in his crease to punch it to long-off

Zia-ur-Rehman to Litton Das, 1 run, loads of width, cut to deep point

Zia-ur-Rehman to Towhid Hridoy, 1 run, tossed up delivery, too full and that's been driven down to long-off