Although the left-hander came to the spotlight after his unbeaten 105, there were two others -- Mohammad Rafique and Aftab Ahmed -- who also had their achievements in the one-sided match in front of an almost capacity crowd.

Rafique took exactly two wickets to become the first Bangladeshi to claim 100 wickets in the shorter-version of the game and partnered with two young fellow left-arm spinners Abdur Razzak (4-33) and Sakib Al Hasan (2-30) to restrict the Zimbabweans to 184-9 in the allotted 50 overs the home side were asked to field first.

On the other hand, dashing Aftab and man-of-the-match Nafees both crossed thousand runs in one-day cricket during an unbeaten 114-run stand for the second wicket to empower the Tigers to 186-1 in 45.3 overs.

Bangladesh vice-captain Nafees continued his amazing form against the southern African rivals with a well-crafted innings that featured 13 fours and an over boundary in 138 balls.

The 20-year-old made his maiden hundred (118) in Zimbabwe in the last match of the five-match series in August before smashing the highest individual score (123) for the country in the very next game when the two sides met in the ICC Champions Trophy in India in October.

In-form Aftab registered his eighth half-century and punished the Zimbabwean attack in his own style to entertain the electric crowd, cracking three big sixes and two fours in a blazing 60 from 88 balls.

Earlier, Bangladeshi left-arm spinners once again proved too good for the Zimbabwe batsmen as the visitors stumbled to slow bowling after getting a confident start against the new ball bowlers.

Brendan Taylor (38) and Stuart Matsikinyeri (27) put on 52 runs in the opening stand but all went wrong once the left-arm spinners joined the action.

Habibul Bashar's men travel to Bogra today where they will play the next two one-dayers on December 3 and 5 under lights.