John Elder

John Watson George Elder (born 16 August 1949 ) is a former Irish cricketer.

A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler,

Of his matches for Ireland, nine had first-class status, all but one of these was against Scotland, the other was against Sri Lanka. He played just one List A match, a NatWest Trophy match against Sussex in July 1985. In all matches for Ireland, he scored 80 runs at an average of 5.33 with a top score of 28 against Wales in August 1979. He took 70 wickets at an average of 24.67, with best bowling figures of 6/29 against Denmark in July 1978. He also served as the tournament referee for the 1999 European Under-19 Championship tournament.

John currently is managing editor and webmaster of the CricketEurope website, a website that covers cricket beyond the ten Test playing nations. He also lectured in computer science at the Queen's University of Belfast.