| Alan Shiell | |
| Birth Date: | 25 April 1945 |
| Birth Place: | Adelaide, Australia |
| Date: | 25 September 2020 |
| Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/7787.html Cricinfo |
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, 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.