Alan Shiell

Alan Shiell (born 25 April 1945) is a former Australian cricketer and newspaper reporter. He played in twenty-three first-class matches for South Australia between 1964 and 1967^[1] but retired from an active cricket career he was twenty four.^[2] He then became a cricket reporter for The Advertiser in Adelaide,^[2] but later joined the also Adelaide-based The News.^[3] He is credited with having revealed the emergence of the World Series Cricket in 1977.^[2]