Left-arm spinner Matthew Humphreys claimed a career-best 4-13 as Ireland made a winning start to the three-match T20 series with a 39-run victory against Bangladesh on Thursday. Ireland posted a competitive 181-4 thanks to a well-composed knock from Harry Tector, who remained unbeaten on 69 from 45 balls. Chasing a challenging target, Bangladesh managed to put up 142-9 after a disastrous start, as they were reduced to 5-3 in the fourth over. Despite a lone fight from Towhid Hridoy, who struck a career-best 83 not out, Bangladesh’s batting collapse was too much to overcome. Humphreys, who was impressive amid the tourists’ 2-0 loss in test series, gave the side a breakthrough in the opening over by dismissing Tanzid Hasan Tamim for 2, before taking three wickets in one over in his second spell to script Ireland’s victory. Mark Adair dealt a double blow to jolt Bangladesh further. Adair sent back Parvez Hossain Emon and Liton Das, both for 1 in consecutive overs as he returned figures of 2-20. Bangladesh tried to claw back into the …