Bangladesh beat Zimbabwe by nine wickets in the second Twenty20 international to clinch the two-match series 2-0 in Dhaka on Wednesday.

Opener Liton Das hit an unbeaten 60 off 45 balls as Bangladesh reached 120-1 in 15.5 overs after Zimbabwe were restricted to 119-7 in 20.

Brendan Taylor scored an unbeaten 59 earlier for Zimbabwe as Al-Amin Hossain and Mustafizur Rahman finished with 2-22 and 2-25 respectively for Bangladesh.

Bangladesh won Monday‘s first match of the series by 48 runs.

The home side also won the preceding three-match one-day international series 3-0 and one-off Test series by an innings and 106 runs. 

SCOREBOARD:

Zimbabwe:

T. Kamunhukamwe c Mushfiqur b Al-Amin 10

B. Taylor not out 59

C. Ervine c Soumya b Afif 29

S. Williams st Mushfiqur b Mahedi 3

S.  Raza c Al-Amin b Saifuddin 12

R. Mutumbami c Soumya b Al-Amin 1

T. Mutombodzi c Naim b Mustafizur 3

W. Madhevere c Naim b Mustafizur 0

C. Mumba not out 1

Extras (lb1) 1

Total (seven wickets, 20 overs) 119

Did not Bat: C. Mpofu, C. Tshuma

Fall of wickets: 1-12 (Kamunhukamwe), 2-69 (Ervine), 3-76 (Williams), 4-96 (Raza), 5-97 (Mutumbami), 6-108 (Mutombodzi), 7-113 (Madhevere)

Bowling: Mustafizur 4-0-25-2, Saifuddin 4-0-30-1, Al-Amin 4-0-22-2, Hasan 4-0-25-0, Mahedi 3-0-14-1, Afif 1-0-2-1

Bangladesh:

Liton Das not out 60

Mohammad Naim c Kamunhukamwe b Mpofu 33

Soumya Sarkar not out 20

Extras (b1 lb2, w4) 7

Total ( one wicket; 15.5 overs) 120

Did not bat: Mushfiqur Rahim, Mahmudullah Riyad, Mahedi Hasan, Afif Hossain, Mohammad Saifuddin, Mustafizur Rahman, Al-Amin Hossain, Hasan Mahmud

Fall of wickets: 1-77 (Naim)

Bowling: Madhevere 3-0-20-0, Mpofu 3.5-0-27-1(w1), Mumba 3-0-26-0, Tshuma 1-0-10-0 (w1), Williams 3-0-16-0(w1), Raza 2-0-18-0(w1)

Result: Bangladesh win by nine wickets

Series Result: Bangladesh win series by 2-0

Toss: Bangladesh

Umpires: Gazi Sohel (BAN), Masudur Rahman (BAN)

TV Umpires: Tanvir Ahmed (BAN)

Match Referee: Jeff Crowe (NZ)