Hossain, who was named player of the match, had an opportunity to secure a hat-trick after taking wickets with consecutive balls but could not capture the final wicket.

"I tried my best. I tried to bowl it as normal," he said.

In reply, Bangladesh reached 125 for eight with Towhid Hridoy top scoring with 40 from 20 balls to win with an over to spare.

Fast bowler Nuwan Thushara took two late wickets to leave Bangladesh still to get 12 runs to go with only two wickets remaining, but the seasoned Mahmudullah (16 not out) steered his team to victory from the last ball of the 19th over.

"Everybody’s body language was great, we gave 130%," said Bangladesh captain Najmul Hossain Shanto.

"I think they bowled really well but on a wicket like this we should have won this easily."

Earlier, Afghanistan’s bowlers exploited to the full a pitch assisting both pace and spin at the Providence Stadium on Friday as they skittled New Zealand for just 75 from 15.2 overs and bowled their team to a 84-run run victory in the T20 World Cup.

Afghanistan captain and spin bowler Rashid Khan took four for 17 in his team’s second decisive victory of the tournament; they defeated Uganda by 125 runs at the same venue on Tuesday and are on top of Group C.