Alan Shiell (born 25 April 1945) is a former Australian
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er and newspaper reporter. He played in twenty-three
first-class matches for
South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...
between 1964 and 1967
but retired from an active cricket career he was twenty four.
He then became a cricket reporter for
The Advertiser in
Adelaide
Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ...
,
but later joined the also Adelaide-based ''
The News''.
[Sexton, p. 26.] He is credited with having revealed the emergence of the
World Series Cricket
World Series Cricket (WSC) was a commercial professional cricket competition staged between 1977 and 1979 which was organised by Kerry Packer and his Australian television network, Nine Network. WSC ran in commercial competition to establishe ...
in 1977.
See also
*
List of South Australian representative cricketers
References
Sources
* Sexton, M. (2017) ''Chappell's Last Stand'', Affirm Press: Melbourne.
External links
*
1945 births
Living people
Australian cricketers
South Australia cricketers
Cricketers from Adelaide
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