John Larkin (1726 in probably at Hadlow in Kent – 1782) was a noted English cricketer of the mid-Georgian period at a time when the single wicket version of the game was popular.
[1] He played for "the most famed parish of Hadlow", as the Hadlow Cricket Club was called in 1747, when he must have been one of its best players.
[citation needed] Larkin and another Hadlow player called Jones represented All-England v Kent at the Artillery Ground on 31 August 1747 (the result is unknown).
[2] John Larkin seems to have had a lengthy career and was still playing club cricket in the 1770s.
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