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{{Infobox cricketer<br />
| name = <br />
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| country = Scotland<br />
| full_name = John McIver<br />
| nickname = <br />
| birth_date = 27 May 1881<br />
| birth_place = [[Glasgow]], [[Lanarkshire]], Scotland<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1950|10|27|1881|5|27|df=yes}}<br />
| death_place = [[Rawalpindi]], [[Punjab (Pakistan)|Punjab]], Pakistan<br />
| heightft = <br />
| heightinch = <br />
| batting = Unknown<br />
| bowling = <br />
| family = [[John McIver (cricketer, born 1912)|John McIver]] (son)<br />
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]<br />
| year1 = 1918/19<br />
| columns = 1<br />
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]<br />
| matches1 = 1<br />
| runs1 = 12<br />
| bat avg1 = 6.00<br />
| 100s/50s1 = –/–<br />
| top score1 = 12<br />
| deliveries1 = 167<br />
| wickets1 = 4<br />
| bowl avg1 = 17.00<br />
| fivefor1 = –<br />
| tenfor1 = –<br />
| best bowling1 = 2/5<br />
| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–<br />
| date = 19 November<br />
| year = 2022<br />
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/john-mciver-31155 ESPNcricinfo<br />
}}<br />
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'''John McIver''' (27 May 1881 — 27 October 1950) was a [[Scottish people|Scottish]] first-class [[cricket]]er.<br />
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The son of William Broadfoot McIver, he was born in [[Glasgow]] in May 1881. He was educated at [[Uppingham School]], before matriculating to [[Trinity College, Cambridge]]. After graduating from Cambridge, he went to [[British India]] where he worked as a broker in [[Chennai|Madras]] for Messrs Hudson, Tod & Co.<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book|last=Venn|first=John|title=Alumni Cantabrigienses|year=1944|volume=4|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|page=268|url=https://archive.org/details/p2alumnicantabri05univuoft|language=en}}</ref> While in India, he made a single appearance in [[first-class cricket]] for the [[Europeans cricket team]] against the [[Indians cricket team|Indians]] at [[M. A. Chidambaram Stadium|Madras]] in the [[Madras Presidency Match]] of 1919.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14082/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by John McIver|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=19 November 2022|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed [[duck (cricket)|without scoring]] by [[Cotah Ramaswami]] in the Europeans first innings, while in their second innings he was dismissed for 12 runs by [[C. K. Krishnaswamy]]. Across the match he took 4 wickets for the cost of 68 runs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9519.html|title=Europeans v Indians, Madras Presidency Match 1918/19|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=19 November 2022|url-access=subscription}}</ref> McIver remained in India following the end of British rule there, and following the [[Partition of India]] he was resident at [[Rawalpindi]] in the newly formed state of Pakistan, where he died in October 1950.<ref name="BOOK"/> His son, also called [[John McIver (cricketer, born 1912)|John]], was a first-class cricketer.<br />
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==External links==<br />
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