Dhaka, April 23 -- Zimbabwe have overcome a five-wicket haul by Mehidy Hasan Miraz to complete a tense chase to seal a three-wicket win over Bangladesh in the final session of the penultimate day of the opening Test.

The target was a modest 174 runs, but chasing it down, Zimbabwe registered their highest-successful second-innings chase ever at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Wednesday.

Before this, they never successfully chased down anything more than 162 in a Test. That record came in 1998 when they beat Pakistan by seven wickets.

Aside from that, Zimbabwe have only two other successful chases of over 100 runs in Test cricket.

The visitors reached 117 for 2 at the stroke of tea, needing 57 runs to make a statement. It se...