A six-foot seven-inch right arm fast bowler with a long run-up, Larter played his earliest cricket in England with Suffolk in the Minor Counties Championship, having been educated in the county at Framlingham College. He then qualified for Northamptonshire. He made his debut for Northamptonshire in 1960, and made such a favourable impression that he was picked for the non-Test playing tour of New Zealand that winter and proved the "great success" of the tour with 36 wickets for under 15 runs apiece.Preston, Norman (editor); Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. Ninety-Ninth edition (1962); p. 864 With the retirement of Tyson, Tribe and Manning, he became the county's leading wicket-taker in 1961 with 70 for 19.87 apiece in a summer unfavourable to bowlers.Preston (editor); Wisden Cricketers' Alamanac (1962); pp. 522.524
