Pakistan beat Bangladesh by 150 runs in the fifth and final one-day international to complete a 5-0 series win at National Stadium, Karachi on Saturday.
Opener Salman Butt [ Images ] smashed 136 to set a national record and fire Pakistan to 329 for nine.
Butt's second hundred in five matches brought his series total to 451, the highest number of runs scored by a Pakistani in a bilateral series.
The previous best of 405 was set by Mohammad Yousuf [ Images ] against Zimbabwe in 2003.
Butt was dropped on 57 and scored his sixth one-day century from 100 balls.
He and Younis Khan [ Images ] (69) put on a second wicket total of 179 runs from 178 balls after Kamran Akmal (10) fell early to Mashrafe Mortaza [ Images ].
Bangladesh did well to fight back after breaking the big partnership and captured eight wickets for 122 in the last 15.2 overs. Mortaza took four for 65.
A quickfire sixth wicket stand of 52 from 34 balls between captain, Shoaib Malik [ Images ] (27) and Misbah-ul-Haq (35) pushed Pakistan to their highest one-day total against the tourists.
Mohammad Asif [ Images ] took three for 35 and Shahid Afrid three for 40 as Bangladesh crashed to 179 all out with almost 10 overs remaining.

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