Rankling half-hundreds of years by Soumya Sarkar and Mosaddek Hossain have pushed Bangladesh to their first-ever ODI competition title in a nerve-clanking pursue against the West Indies.
It was the seventh time fortunate for the Tigers who had flopped in their six past endeavors to win a competition.
Mosaddek's unbeaten 52 off 24 balls after 41-ball 66 by Soumya helped Bangladesh chase down the objective of 210 in some style with seven balls and five wickets to save in the downpour abbreviated last of the tri-country arrangement in Ireland on Friday.
The triumph has carved May 17 in Bangladesh's cricket history also, on the grounds that the Tigers tasted their first ODI win, against Kenya in India, on this day in 1998.
In Dublin, Soumya began the interest with some fresh shots as Tamim Iqbal hoped to get set on the wicket. It implied his accomplice took the majority of the strikes.
West Indies pegged Bangladesh back when Shannon Gabriel sent back Tamim (18 off 13) and Sabbir Rahman for a duck in the equivalent over.
Unflinching by the loss of snappy wickets, Soumya found the limit normally as he joined forces with Mushfiqur Rahim in a 49-run stand.
The organization broke when Soumya, who utilized the pace on the ball off Gabriel and Kemar Roach, at long last fell as West Indies brought Raymon Reifer to get wickets.
The Tigers wound up in a difficult situation again subsequent to losing three speedy wickets as Reifer likewise caught Mushfiqur in front after his appearance of 22-ball 36 two overs later and Mohammad Mithun was out to a slider by Fabian Allen after another two overs.
Having won all the past matches of the arrangement, with the exception of a drizzled out tie against Ireland, Bangladesh at last had Mosaddek, who came in for harmed Shakib Al Hasan, to the salvage.
In holding the required rate under wraps, Mosaddek took 20 balls to crush the quickest ODI 50 years by any Bangladeshi batsman with five sixes and two limits while Mahmudullah shielded the wickets from falling at the opposite end.
The match remained in a critical state until Mosaddek hit three sixes and a limit in the 22nd over of Allen after one six each off Jason Holder and Roach to make Bangladesh requiring 27 off the last three overs.
Prior in the day, West Indies made 152 for 1 in the 24-overs-a-side match after downpours stopped play with the group 131 for no misfortune in 20.1 overs, yet the objective for Bangladesh ended up steep as DLS became an integral factor.
Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza's choice to bowl first in an offer to take advantage of the cloudy conditions did not satisfy with the bowlers neglecting to make advances into the Caribbean batting.
Openers Shai Hope and Sunil Ambris achieved their fifties in brisk time to push their group into a solid position.
Be that as it may, when the play continued, Mustafizur Rahman and Mehidy Hasan Miraz had the option to contain the Windies pair, giving just 21 keeps running off the rest of the 23 balls.
Expectation made 74 off 64 with six fours and three sixes and left with eight additional balls to go.
Mosaddek took the catch at long on when the West Indies batsman endeavored to trudge a Miraz conveyance over midwicket.
Ambris stayed unbeaten on 69 off 78 conveyances. The opener hit seven limits.
BRIEF SCORES: West Indies 152/1 of every 24 overs (Shai Hope 74, Sunil Ambris 69*; Mehidy Hasan 1-22). Bangladesh 213/5 in 22.5 overs (Soumya Sarkar 66, Mosaddek Hossain 52*; Raymon Reifer 2-23, Shannon Gabriel 2-30). Bangladesh win by 5 wickets. Player of the Match: Mosaddek Hossain. Player of the Series: Shai Hope.
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