Pharon Indoor Cricket League Update

After only two months’ play in the winter-long programme of indoor cricket at the Kent Academy, there is already prospect of exciting battles for honours in the Pharon League.

With continued financial backing from Pharon, the independent financial advisors based at Lawrence House, Harbledown, the league is regarded as one of the strongest in England.

Before the opening of the Academy, the league used the Herne Bay Secondary and Chaucer schools. Now, as well as clubs in the Canterbury area, it attracts others from Faversham, Thanet and Gravesend.

Twenty-four senior and junior teams compete at weekends at the Ames-Levett Centre until March. Winners of the senior first division qualify for the county, then regional, then national finals which take place at Lord’s in the spring.

The Pharon League champions have twice won the national title; Canterbury in 2011 and Whitstable a year later.

At the halfway stage of this season, Canterbury (formerly The Beverley Club) and Whitstable are in the top four, but they are being fiercely challenged by the village club, Street End, and the University of Kent at Canterbury. Canterbury have won the league 10 times since the turn of the century.