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/three in 23.three overs.
Tail-ender Azmatullah Omarzai, who scored 56 for Afghanistan and made his first ODI fifty, supplied some late struggle.
Fazalhaq Farooqi, a left-arm seamer, provided Afghanistan some hope when he dismissed Naim Sheikh for a duck and Najmul Hossain for 11.
For the third wicket, Liton and Shakib Al Hasan added 61 runs, stabilising the innings and giving Bangladesh again the initiative.
Shakib fell to Mohammad Nabi after making a run-a-ball 39, however Liton, who struck three fours and two sixes in his 60-ball innings, took Bangladesh house.
Younger Towhid Hridoy hit the successful boundary off Zia-ur-Rehman to remain unbeaten on 22.
The vacationers earlier gained the toss and elected to bat first, however by no means managed to get their innings going.
Shoriful struck early after taking the sphere for the primary time this sequence, dismissing Ibrahim Zadran for one and Rahmat Shah for a duck within the third over.
Rahmanullah Gurbaz, who smashed a career-best 145 within the earlier match, noticed one catch land in no man’s land however quickly top-edged Taskin Ahmed to depart for six.
Shoriful compounded Afghanistan’s woes by trapping Nabi leg-before to go away the vacationers teetering at 15-Four inside 9 overs.
Hashmatullah Shahidi and Najibullah Zadran stemmed the rot, however Shakib despatched again the latter for 10 to cease their partnership from creating.
Shahidi dragged one off Taijul Islam onto his stumps to finish his affected person knock of 22 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 the final man dismissed, holing out a catch to Naim Sheikh at long-off off Taskin, who claimed 2-23.
Afghanistan are already solely the second staff to win an ODI sequence in Bangladesh up to now seven years, with world champions England being the opposite.
Victory within the match would have made them the primary aspect to win all three matches of an ODI sequence in Bangladesh since Sri Lanka in 2014.
Following the ODI sequence are two T20s in Bangladesh’s northeastern metropolis of Sylhet on July 14 and 16.
(With inputs from AFP)
