West Indies beat Bangladesh by five wickets to sweep T20 series

West Indies beat Bangladesh by five wickets in the third and final T20I of the three-match series on Thursday night.

With this win, the hosts won the series 2-0 after the first match was washed out due to heavy rains, reporrts UNB.

Bangladesh batted first in this match after a delayed start posed by rains. The visitors scored a par score of 163 for five wickets, with Afif Hossain hitting a blazing fifty off 38 balls with two fours and two sixes. And Liton Das posted 49.

But the other batters failed to score at the pace that T20 cricket requires.

Anamul Haque (10), Shakib Al Hasan (5) and Mahmudullah Riyad (22) failed to do what the team needed to post a bigger total on the board against the West Indies.

Hayden Walsh bagged two wickets for the hosts.

In reply, Nicholas Pooran, the West Indian captain, scored 74 off just 39 balls with five fours and five sixes and made it easy for the hosts to win the match chasing a target of 164 runs. Kyle Mayers also hit a fifty.

Bangladesh used eight bowlers in this match but failed to defend a good total.

Nasum Ahmed, the left-arm spinner, bagged two wickets conceding 44 runs in four overs, while Mahedi Hasan, Shakib Al Hasan and Afif Hossain scalped one wicket each.

Now both the team will take on a three-match ODI series, starting July 10. The other matches will be played on July 13 and 16.

Before the limited-over series, Bangladesh and West Indies played a two-match Test series that the Tigers lost 2-0.