John Larkin (born in 1726, probably at Hadlow in

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; died in 1782) was a noted English

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

er of the mid-Georgian period at a time when the single wicket version of the game was popular.Hadlow CC History
He played for "the most famed parish of Hadlow", as the

Hadlow Cricket Club Hadlow Cricket Club was one of the early English cricket clubs, formed in the early to mid eighteenth century. Hadlow is a village in the Medway valley near Tonbridge in Kent. The historic club A cricket club at Hadlow was known to exist durin ...

was called in 1747, when he must have been one of its best players. Larkin and another Hadlow player called Jones represented

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at the Artillery Ground on 31 August 1747 (the result is unknown).

F S Ashley-Cooper Frederick Samuel Ashley-Cooper (born c. 22 March 1877 in Bermondsey, London; died 31 January 1932 in Milford, near Godalming, Surrey) was a cricket historian and statistician. According to ''Wisden'', Ashley-Cooper wrote "103 books and pamphl ...

, ''At the Sign of the Wicket: Cricket 1742-1751'', ''Cricket'' Magazine, 1900 John Larkin seems to have had a lengthy career and was still playing club cricket in the 1770s.

G B Buckley George Bent Buckley (1885 – 26 April 1962) was an English surgeon and a celebrated cricket historian and an authority on the early days of the game. Buckley was born in Saddleworth, Yorkshire, the son of Arthur and Jane Buckley, his fath ...

, ''Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket'', Cotterell, 1935

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Hadlow Cricket Club
website {{DEFAULTSORT:Larkin, John English cricketers English cricketers of 1701 to 1786 Kent cricketers 1726 births 1782 deaths Date of death missing Place of death missing Date of birth unknown Non-international England cricketers People from Hadlow