The body of cricket legend Shane Warne has been flown out of Bangkok, landing in his native Melbourne yesterday. According to an AFP report, a non-public jet transported the physique of the 52-year-old, who died of a coronary heart attack last week while on holiday on Koh Samui. After an 8-hour flight, the chartered jet touched at Melbourne’s Essendon North airport yesterday evening.
According to the report, the household is organising a personal service for the late cricket star. Feast shall be followed by a state memorial at Melbourne Cricket Ground on March 30 and tickets shall be made available to the public. It’s understood there are plans to rename the Great Southern Stand in honour of the cricketer, who took his 700th wicket there in 2006. The state memorial has been confirmed by Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews.
“There’s nowhere on the planet more acceptable to farewell Warnie than the ‘G’”.
Tributes have poured in from around the globe for the “king of spin” who has been such an enormous a part of Australian cricket since his Test debut in 1992. Widely credited with reviving the leg-spin method, Warne played with a powerful Australian Test staff through the Nineteen Nineties and 2000s, contributing to Australia profitable the 1999 limited-overs World Cup. Following his phenomenal playing profession, he was praised for his insightful commentary.
The cricket star’s family have made public a few of their messages of grief and love, along with his mother and father Keith and Brigitte Warne saying they can’t think about life with out him.
“To discover phrases to adequately categorical our unhappiness is an inconceivable task for us and seeking to a future without Shane is inconceivable.”
Warne’s son Jackson shared reminiscences of playing poker and golf with his father, reminiscing about watching Aussie guidelines football and consuming pizza with someone he considered as much a brother and greatest pal as a father.
“I love you so much. I don’t think something is ever going to fill the void you’ve left in my coronary heart. You have been actually one of the best father and mate anybody could’ve requested for. I love you a lot Dad, see you soon.”