Alan Shiell (born 25 April 1945) is a former Australian
cricket
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er and newspaper reporter. He played in twenty-three
first-class matches for
South Australia
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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
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,
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 established ...
in 1977.
See also
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List of South Australian representative cricketers
This is a list of cricketers who have represented South Australia in either a first-class, List A or Twenty20 match.
South Australia's inaugural first-class match commenced on 10 November 1877, against Tasmania at the Adelaide Oval, its first ...
References
Sources
* Sexton, M. (2017) ''Chappell's Last Stand'', Affirm Press: Melbourne.
External links
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1945 births
Living people
Australian cricketers
South Australia cricketers
Cricketers from Adelaide
20th-century Australian sportsmen
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