Shoriful Islam‘s career-best 4-21 enabled the hosts to bowl out Afghanistan for 126 in 45.2 overs, permitting them to advance to 129/3 in 23.3 overs.
Tail-ender Azmatullah Omarzai, who scored 56 for Afghanistan and made his first ODI fifty, supplied some overdue battle.
Fazalhaq Farooqi, a left-arm seamer, presented Afghanistan some hope when he pushed aside Naim Sheikh for a duck and Najmul Hossain for 11.
For the 3rd wicket, Liton and Shakib Al Hasan added 61 runs, stabilizing the innings and giving Bangladesh again the initiative.
Shakib fell to Mohammad Nabi after creating a run-a-ball 39, however Liton, who struck 3 fours and two sixes in his 60-ball innings, took Bangladesh house.
younger Towhid Hridoy hit the successful boundary off Zia-ur-Rehman to stick unbeaten on 22.
The vacationers previous received the toss and elected to bat first, however by no means controlled to get their innings going.
Shoriful struck early after taking the sphere for the primary time this sequence, pushing aside Ibrahim Zadran for one and Rahmat Shah for a duck within the 3rd over.
Rahmanullah Gurbaz, who smashed a career-best 145 within the earlier fit, noticed one catch land in no guy’s land however quickly top-edged Taskin Ahmed to go away for 6.
Shoriful compounded Afghanistan’s woes via trapping Nabi leg-before to depart the vacationers teetering at 15-4 within 9 overs.
Hashmatullah Shahidi and Najibullah Zadran stemmed the rot, however Shakib despatched again the latter for 10 to forestall their partnership from creating.
Shahidi dragged one off Taijul Islam onto his stumps to finish his affected person knock of twenty-two from 54 balls.
Omarzai helped Afghanistan previous the 100-run mark after the fast departure of debutants Abdul Rahman (4) and Zia (5).
He was once the remaining guy pushed aside, holing out a catch to Naim Sheikh at long-off off Taskin, who claimed 2-23.
Afghanistan are already simplest the second one workforce to win an ODI sequence in Bangladesh up to now seven years, with international champions England being the opposite.
Victory within the fit would have made them the primary aspect to win all 3 fits of an ODI sequence in Bangladesh since Sri Lanka in 2014.
Following the ODI sequence are two T20s in Bangladesh’s northeastern town of Sylhet on July 14 and 16.
(With inputs from AFP)