Bangladesh have beaten Afghanistan by 7 wickets to avoid the cleansweep and salvage the lost respect. Shoroful Islam's onburst and Litton's brilliant fifty led team tigers to their victory on Tuesday (11th July) at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chattogram.

Afghanistan skipper Hashmatullah Shahidi won the toss and chose to bat first on a bowling friendly condition which really turned out to be backfiring for Afghanistan. Shoriful Islam was right on the money and he was breathing fire under the sun. He got Ibrahim Zadran in the very first over of the innings and went for Rahmat as he forced him to get a duck. There was no Rahmanullah Gurbaz' special as the young pace sensation from Bangladesh, Shoriful Islam picked him up for a sedate 6 off 22 deliveries. Shoriful's riot wasn’t meant to stop as this time he trapped Mohammad Nabi infront of his pads for a LBW and Afghanistan were down into a sea as the scorecard was 15-4.

After the onburst from Shoriful, other bowlers too gave him hands as Shakib Al Hasan got Najibullah for 10 off 22. While Taijul Islam got skipper Shahidi and Abdul Rahman and Afghanistan fell into a deep sea as they were stuttering for 89-8. And then a fighting 56 from Azmatullah Omarzai helped Afghanistan post a below per total of 126-10 after being bundled within 45.2 overs. Shoriful Islam was the pick of the bowlers from Bangladesh as he picked up 4 wickets conceding only 21 from his 9 overs. Taskin Ahmed and Taijul Islam both got two apiece. Mehedi Miraz and Shakib Al Hasan too were among the wickets with their solitary one.

Chasing 127, Bangladesh crumbled off thunderbolts from Fazalhaq Farooqi as a peach of a delivery forced Mohammad Naim' and Shanto's stumps flying. The first one had a 8 ball duck, whereas the second one scored 11 off 15 before getting back to the pavilion. Shakib and Litton Das then stitched a fantastic partnership of 61 runs before Shakib saw himself in the hands of Shahidi. Litton notched up a fine fifty and led his side to a brilliant victory over Afghanistan by 7 wickets to avoid the whitewash.