John Larkin (cricketer)
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John Larkin was a noted English cricket
er of the mid-Georgian period at a time when the single wicket version of the game was popular.
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. Larkin and another Hadlow player called Jones represented All-England
v Kent
at the Artillery Ground
on 31 August 1747 (the result is unknown).
John Larkin seems to have had a lengthy career and was still playing club cricket in the 1770s.
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er of the mid-Georgian period at a time when the single wicket version of the game was popular.
He played for "the most famed parish of Hadlow", as the Hadlow Cricket Club
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 historical club:...
was called in 1747, when he must have been one of its best players. Larkin and another Hadlow player called Jones represented All-England
All-England Eleven
In cricket, the term All-England has been used for various non-international teams that have been formed for short-term purposes since the 1739 English cricket season and it indicates that the "Rest of England" is playing against, say, MCC or an individual county team...
v Kent
Kent county cricket teams
Kent county cricket teams have been traced back to the 17th century but the county's involvement in cricket goes back much further than that. Kent, jointly with Sussex, is the birthplace of the sport...
at the Artillery Ground
Artillery Ground
The Artillery Ground in Finsbury is one of London's most centrally located cricket grounds, situated just off the City Road immediately north of the City of London...
on 31 August 1747 (the result is unknown).
John Larkin seems to have had a lengthy career and was still playing club cricket in the 1770s.
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Further reading
- H T WaghornH T WaghornHenry Thomas Waghorn , was a cricket statistician and historian. He is best known for his two classic researches into cricket's early history: The Dawn of Cricket and Cricket Scores: 1730 - 1773....
, Cricket Scores, Notes, etc. (1730-1773), Blackwood, 1899 - H T Waghorn, The Dawn of Cricket, Electric Press, 1906