Kenneth Parkin (20 February 1921 – 2 July 1973) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played in two first-class matches, one during the 1942–43 season for a New Zealand Air Force side and once during the 1945–46 season for Wellington.Kenneth Parkin, CricInfo. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
Parkin as born at Wellington in 1921 and was educated at Rongotai College in the city.McCarron, Tony (2010). New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 104. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) He served in the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II, playing cricket for the Air Force side. On his first-class debut against a New Zealand Army side at Lancaster Park in Christchurch in April 1943 he took three wickets and scored 11 runs in his first innings before recording a duck in his second. After the end of World War II he played a second first-class match during the 1945–46 season, taking a single wicket and again scoring 11 and 0 in his two innings for Wellington against Auckland at Eden Park.Kenneth Parkin, CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 September 2024. Cricket: four new Wellington players], Northern Advocate, 15 January 1946, p. 4. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 15 September 2024.)
Professionally Parkin worked as a company director. He died at Wellington in 1973 aged 52. An obituary was published in that year's edition of the New Zealand Cricket Almanack.
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