Shane Warne

2022 - 3 - 30

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Kylie Minogue and Elton John lead celebrity tributes as thousands ... (Sky News)

The 52-year-old died of a suspected heart attack on 4 March in Koh Samui, Thailand. An autopsy revealed his death was due to natural causes.

He was such a great bloke." Spectators also heard how "he raised most of the millions himself" and was "unstoppable" in his efforts to help other people. I've just got such wonderful stories of him. The service heard how "committed" Warne was to his charity work, particularly to helping children and "the need to give something back". He added when Warne died on 4 March, "it was the darkest day in our family's life" and his son's "feats on and off the cricket field will go down in history for all time". Kylie said Warne had that "star quality and charisma that the world got to know and love" and it "was the same on the doorstep" as it was on the cricket field.

Cricket says final goodbyes to Shane Warne in moving Melbourne ... (The Irish Times)

Tributes paid to one of the game's most popular figures in star-studded ceremony.

Warne’s death was the family’s “darkest day”. Days before leaving for Thailand, Warne arrived at her house to pick up his bag for Thailand with Bryan Adams’ hit Summer of ‘69 blaring from his car. “He was always about putting smiles on other people’s faces. “He was the king bowler, the great bowler – but also the great sledger,” he said. “You may hear a rooster in the distance, which I am thinking of as him because he and a rooster shared some qualities,” he said, chuckling. The cricket great’s father, Keith Warne, commemorated his son as a doting father, a loving son and a caring brother, telling the crowd he was grateful the world loved Warne as much has he and mother Brigitte did.

Australia says its final farewell to Shane Warne (RTE.ie)

Shane Warne's father Keith paid a heartfelt tribute to his son during a state memorial service on Wednesday, saying his family took comfort in knowing he ...

I will always love him and will always miss my big brother. May you now rest in eternal paradise, I love you so unconditionally much." Rest in peace, mate." You have been taken too soon and our hearts are broken." I’m so proud that you were my Dad." "Looking forward to a future without Shane is inconceivable.

Shane Warne remembered as 'much-loved cricketing legend' at ... (BreakingNews.ie)

Tributes were paid to the former leg-spinner at a state memorial service at Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Hussain added: “Shane, it was an absolute privilege to be with you on a cricket pitch. “Mate, your mother and I can’t imagine a life without you. “Looking forward to a future without Shane is inconceivable. Asked to describe Warne in one word, Border said he was a “genius” and another former Australia captain Taylor added “genuine”. Thank you for all you did for us. And for being such a loving and caring son.

Shane Warne asked Peaky Blinders producers for cameo but teeth ... (Irish Mirror)

A eulogy at Shane Warne's state funeral at the Melbourne Cricket Ground today delivered by Aaron Hamill detailed how the cricket legend was a 'binge Netflix ...

'”Looking forward to a future without Shane is inconceivable. We love your enthusiasm, but unfortunately porcelain veneers weren't around in Birmingham in 1931.’”' It said, ‘Dear Shane, thanks very much.

Crowds gather in Melbourne to say final goodbyes to Shane Warne (Irish Examiner)

The former leg-spinner, considered one of the greatest cricketers of all-time, died aged 52 earlier this month from a suspected heart attack while on ...

It was a day that our son, Shane Keith Warne, was tragically and suddenly taken from us. “Looking forward to a future without Shane is inconceivable. “He was an unbelievable cricketer and bloke. If there was one place he would want to be remembered, it is here. He was an entertainer, centre stage at any venue. Instantly there was something there.”

Shane Warne remembered with joy in his favourite concrete ... (The Guardian)

Melbourne Cricket Ground bid farewell in a fitting manner for a player who changed his sport but remained an ordinary bloke.

After the bushfire summer and the two lost years of Covid, it has been a glorious few months in Melbourne. There was a proper sense of who he was, the joy he brought and his prodigious talent and reach. On day five of this Test, with his unbuttoned shirt, gold chains and broad-brimmed sunhat, he was in murderous touch. In the weeks after his death, there had been a ghoulish fascination with his final hours and the repatriation of his body. There was no win or loss to dissect. He whinged about the same things as us on Twitter. He listened to the same music. Before his final MCG Test, he said he was almost “turned on”. But it was impossible to listen to Warne’s three children – Jackson, Brooke and Summer – and not feel a desperate sadness. There was no Bach, no Yeats – just Williams and Sheeran. Instead of an archbishop, ceremonies were conducted by a TV personality. There was no gothic splendour – just a cavernous, concrete colosseum. At Victoria’s first state funeral, a cortege bearing the caskets of Robert O’Hara Burke and William John Wills was led by six black-plumed horses. It’s where, under temperamental skies and in front of 90,000 people, he took his 700th Test wicket.