Alan Shiell
Australian cricketer (born 1945)
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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]
