"We should have had another 25-30 runs," said Bashar before adding: "We committed the same mistakes in the middle-order like we had done in the first two games."

Bashar was however impressed with the way the bowlers went about their job.

"They bowled brilliantly in the final ten overs and never allowed the Zimbabweans to get away. Our bowling at the death was much better than in the previous matches also.

"The first spells of Mashrafee (Mortuza) and Nazmul (Hossain) also helped us take the initial upper hand and the control of the match. That made our win easier."

The Bangladesh skipper was now hoping that the same intensity would carry on into the last two ODIs in Dhaka and did not want to dwell on the toss factor. In the first three matches, the toss winning side had batted first and won.

"The next game will be a different match but another must-win encounter. We were lucky with the toss today but if we want to win the series, we have to learn to chase as well."

Bashar's counterpart Tatenda Taibu said that he was not unduly worried at the loss.

"We are still leading 2-1 and one win from the next two matches will give us the series. We can do that in the fourth game," said Taibu.

Taibu attributed yesterday's defeat to the failure to maintain the asking run rate.

"We didn't play good. But I think we also couldn't keep up the pace during batting. There were no good partnerships building and wickets fell at regular intervals."