India, Dec. 27 -- Devdutt Padikkal slammed his second consecutive ton, while Karun Nair also scored a run-a-ball century to guide defending champions Karnataka to a comfortable eight-wicket win over Kerala in their second Group A match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy ODI tournament here on Friday.

Karnataka, who defeated Jharkhand in their tournament opener on Wednesday, elected to field after winning the toss and restricted Kerala to 284 for 7. Kerala didn't have the best of starts, losing their first three wickets at the score of 49 before Baba Aparajith (71 off 62) and wicket-keeper Mohammed Azharuddeen (84 off 58) made substantial contributions to take their side to the total.

Left-arm medium pace Abhilash Shetty (3/59) picked up two wic...