Dhaka, Nov. 23 -- Centuries from Litton Das and Mushfiqur Rahim, who played his 100th Test match, followed by a brilliant bowling show from left-arm spinner Taijul Islam, helped Bangladesh to secure a dominating 217-run win against Ireland at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka on Sunday.

With this victory, the Najmul Hossain Shanto-led Bangladesh whitewashed Andrew Balbirnie's Ireland 2-0 in the two-match Test series.

Chasing a daunting target of 508 runs, Ireland started their day's play at 176/6 with Andy McBrine (11*) and Curtis Campher (34*) on strike. Both batters started slowly and kept playing cautious cricket before Andy hit the first boundary of the day against Taijul Islam during the 64th over.

During the 68th over, I...