DHA­KA, Bangladesh – An in­ex­pe­ri­enced West In­dies once again failed to show any met­tle and crashed to a sev­en-wick­et de­feat in the sec­ond One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al on Wednes­day, to con­cede the three-match se­ries with hard­ly a whim­per.

For the sec­ond straight game, the Caribbean side’s bat­ting was well be­low par, mus­ter­ing on­ly 148 off 43.4 overs and there were no night­mares for Bangladesh as they eas­i­ly over­hauled the tar­get in the 34th over.

Cap­tain Tamim Iqbal top-scored with 50 off 76 de­liv­er­ies while the in­valu­able Skak­ib-al-Hasan con­trolled the lat­ter stages of the run chase with an un­beat­en 43 off 50 de­liv­er­ies.

The de­feat was West In­dies’ sev­enth straight one to Bangladesh in ODIs and their sec­ond con­sec­u­tive se­ries loss in the south Asian na­tion.

And that out­come was hard­ly sur­pris­ing once they opt­ed to bat at the Shere Bangla Na­tion­al Sta­di­um and slumped to 41 for five in the 17th over, a po­si­tion from which they nev­er re­cov­ered de­spite Rov­man Pow­ell’s top score of 41.

Off-spin­ner Mehidy Hasan wreaked hav­oc on the in­nings with four for 25 while seam­er Mustafizur Rah­man (2-15) and left-arm spin­ner Shak­ib-al-Hasan (2-30) sup­port with two wick­ets apiece.

There was mis­ery for West In­dies from the fifth over when Sunil Am­bris (6) was squared up by Mustafizur and tak­en at short point by Mehidy Hasan.

Debu­tant Kjorn Ot­t­ley, the sev­enth in two match­es for West In­dies, struck two fours and a six in 24 but gift­ed his wick­et by punch­ing Mehidy Hasan to cov­er in the 14th over, af­ter he had added 26 for the sec­ond wick­et with Joshua Da Sil­va (5).

Three balls lat­er in the same over with one run added, Da Sil­va played down the wrong line and had his off stump pegged back and in the next over, An­dre Mc­Carthy missed an ill-ad­vised heave at the sev­enth ball he faced and was bowled by Shak­ib for three.

There was hope when the in-form Kyle May­ers ar­rived at the crease but his dis­as­trous run out in the 18th over be­fore he had scored, at­tempt­ing a non-ex­is­tent sin­gle, plunged the Windies fur­ther in­to strife.

A 26-run, sixth wick­et stand be­tween cap­tain Ja­son Mo­hammed (11) and Nkrumah Bon­ner (20) tem­porar­i­ly halt­ed the slide, as the pair tried des­per­ate­ly to re­build.

How­ev­er, Mo­hammed was de­ceived and hit in front by Shak­ib in the 24th over and Bon­ner played on to seam­er Hasan Mah­mud five balls lat­er in the next over.

Once Ray­mon Reifer was lbw to Mehidy Hasan in the 30th for two, the Windies were on the ropes again at 88 for eight and in dan­ger of falling for be­low three fig­ures.

Pow­ell, bat­ting at num­ber eight, had oth­er ideas though, stroking two fours and a six in a 66-ball knock to see West In­dies past the 100-run mark.

He an­chored the largest stand of the in­nings when he added 32 for the ninth with Alzarri Joseph (17) and al­so put on a fur­ther 28 for the last wick­et with Akeal Ho­sein (12 not out).

Pow­ell was even­tu­al­ly last out, miss­ing a charge at Mehidy and go­ing stumped.

In re­ply, Bangladesh paced their in­nings well, Tamim stag­ing a 30-run first wick­et stand part­ner­ship with Liton Das (22) and a 47-run sec­ond wick­et part­ner­ship with Na­j­mul Hos­sain (17).

Left-han­der Tamim struck three fours and a six in his 48th ODI fifty be­fore he was re­moved in the 26th over by left-arm seam­er Reifer, edg­ing a cut be­hind to leave Bangladesh on 109 for three.

Shak­ib then took re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for the in­nings, carv­ing out four fours off 50 balls in an un­bro­ken 40-run, fourth wick­et stand with Mush­fiqur Rahim (nine not out) to de­ny West In­dies any fur­ther suc­cess. The fi­nal ODI is set for Mon­day in Chat­togram.

SCORES

WEST IN­DIES 148 off 43.4 overs (Rov­man Pow­ell 41, Kjorn Ot­t­ley 24, Nkrumah Bon­ner 20; Mehidy Hasan 4-25, Mustafizur 2-15, Shak­ib-al-Hasan 2-30)

BANGLADESH 149 for three off 33.2 overs (Tamim Iqbal 50, Shak­ib-al-Hasan 43 not out)