HEINO Kuhn is only 56 runs short of hitting the 1,000 runs mark in the Sunfoil Series.Given his recent form in ensuring that the Titans remain on top of the domestic four-day competition, blasting past that mark should be an easy task for the 31-year-old opening batsman.Making it extra special is the fact that no domestic batsman has scored 1,000 runs in six seasons.The last time it happened, three batsmen — the Knights’ Rilee Rossouw (1,189), fellow Titan Dean Elgar (1,060) and the Highveld Lions’ Stephen Cook (1,013) — did it in one season, in 2009-10.Since then, the only other batsman to have scored more than the 944 runs Kuhn has accumulated so far was his former teammate Jacques Rudolph, who finished with 954 in the 2010-11 season.Kuhn’s contribution is highly appreciated by the Titans, who are in the hunt for their first Sunfoil Series title since 2011-12."Heino just gets better every year. Just when you think you’ve seen the best from him, he comes up with something else," Ti...

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