Alan Shiell

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