Holder Karnataka once more turned chasing into the profitable system and crushed Kerala by eight wickets for its second consecutive win in Vijay Hazare Trophy on the Narendra Modi Stadium B floor right here on Friday.
Kerala’s scourge Karun Nair scored an unbeaten century 130 not out (130b, 14×4) whereas Devdutt Padikkal 124 (137b, 12×4, 3×6) smashed his second consecutive century as Karnataka comfortably overhauled a goal of 285 for the lack of two wickets and 10 balls to spare.
Akhil Scaria gave Kerala an early raise by trapping Mayank Agarwal (1) in entrance, however Padikkal and Karun shut out any hopes by figuring in a match-winning partnership of 223 from 236 balls.
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Karun took the cost initially taking part in the sweep pictures, common and reverse, in opposition to the spinners for boundaries and performed effortlessly on a real wicket to finish his century. Padikkal was unhurried and struck the occasional large pictures to progress to his ton. Leg spinner Vignesh Puthur bowled with management however discovered little assist as Padikkal and Karun took the sport away from Kerala.
Earlier, left arm medium pacer Abhilash Shetty’s opening spell (3/24 from six overs) underneath useful situations lowered Kerala to 49/3. B. Aparajith (71) and Akhil Scaria (27) repaired the injury by including 77 runs for the fourth wicket and later Mohammed Azharuddeen (84 not out) and M.D. Nidheesh (34 out) added 99 runs (from 88 balls) for the eighth wicket to allow Kerala submit a aggressive complete.
Madhya Pradesh survived a late mini collapse to attain a two-wicket win over Tamil Nadu. Chasing 281, Yash Dubey (92) and Himanshu Mantri (90) put Madhya Pradesh on street to win with a second-wicket stand of 178. Nevertheless, MP misplaced wickets commonly and slipped from 208 for 2 to 271 for eight firstly of the forty eighth over. However Aryan Pandey smashed Gurjapneet Singh for a six as MP gained with 4 balls to spare. Earlier, Tamil Nadu didn’t construct on to a wonderful begin of 115 given by openers Sai Sudarshan (51) and N. Jagadeesan (55) and posted a sub-par complete of 280.
The scores
Kerala 284/7 in 50 overs (Mohammed Azharuddeen 84 n.o., B Aparajith 71) misplaced to Karnataka 285/2 in 48.2 overs (Karun Nair 130 n.o., Devdutt Padikkal 124).
Tamil Nadu 280 in 49.3 overs (S. Mohamed Ali 57, N. Jagadeesan 55, Sai Sudarshan 51, Sunny Sandhu 43) misplaced to Madhya Pradesh 283/8 in 49.2 overs (Yash Dubey 92, Himanshu Mantri 90, Govinth 4/54).
Jharkhand 301 in 50 overs (Shikar Mohan 129, Anukul Roy 52, Khaleel Ahmed 4/49) bt Rajasthan 228 in 50 overs (Karan Lamba 102, Shubham Singh 6/50).
Pondicherry 150 in 41.3 overs (Jayant Yadav 51) bt Tripura 151/3 in 32.3 overs (Udiyan Bose 53, Vijay Shankar 47 n.o.).
Printed on Dec 26, 2025