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Innocent Kaia<\/a> continued his incredible form across formats with a career-best first-class knock in the Logan Cup<\/a> on Monday (March 9).<\/p>\n Innocent Kaia makes career-best score in Logan Cup <\/p>\n Opening the batting for the Southern Rocks in the four-day affair against the Mountaineers, Kaia scored 176 runs, his fourth first-class hundred, and also bettered his highest score in the format. This was notably the third ton in his last four innings across formats.<\/p>\n Kaia lost his opening partner in just the fourth over after rain forced a delay in the start of the proceedings, when Panashe Taruvinga joined him in the middle. The duo ensured there were no further hiccups on Day 1, getting to 139-1 by stumps, with the opener batting eight short of his hundred.<\/p>\n Also read: Deepak Chahar Mankads Zimbabwe batter before first ball of innings, declines to appeal<\/a><\/p>\n Kaia would go on to complete his century, while the 20-year-old Taruvinga brought up his fourth first-class fifty. The duo put their side on top with a 225-run stand, with the youngster getting dismissed for a patient 142-ball 81. Rocks\u2019 captain and Innocent\u2019s elder brother, Roy<\/a>, couldn\u2019t hang around for long, following Taruvinga to the dressing room just a couple of overs later.<\/p>\n The opener had, by then, completed a first-ever 150 in first-class cricket and was ultimately the fourth Rocks wicket to fall after having scored 176 off 252, with the team score at 294. Jonathan Campbell waged a lone battle after that, remaining unbeaten on 64 as wickets fell around him. He, along with Taruvinga and Kaia, was the only batter to reach double digits.<\/p>\n Rocks declared their innings for 350-9 just before stumps on Day 2 to have a shot at the Mountaineers\u2019 top order, who managed to remain unscathed for 17 runs in six overs by stumps.<\/p>\n Kaia, notably, had hit a match-winning 104 not out off 89 deliveries in the Southern Rocks\u2019 Pro50 Championship<\/a> win over the Matabeleland Tuskers on February 19. He followed it up with a 56 against the Rhinos in a Logan Cup fixture before hitting a second consecutive List A ton (103) against the Rhinos on March 2.<\/p>\n Follow Wisden for all cricket updates, including live scores<\/a>, match stats, quizzes<\/a> and more. Stay up to date with the latest cricket news<\/a>, player updates, team standings,<\/a> match highlights, video analysis<\/a> and live match odds<\/a>.<\/p>\n Cover StoriesSeries Cover StoriesCover Stories UKCover Stories IndiaCover Stories Asia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Innocent Kaia continued his incredible form across formats with a career-best first-class knock in the Logan Cup on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-469045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}