Cricket nice Shane Warne begins closing journey residence to Australia

The physique of Australian cricket nice Shane Warne has began its closing journey residence.

Just earlier than daybreak on Thursday, his coffin draped in an Australian flag was put into an ambulance on the Thai Police Forensic Institute and pushed to a global airport. Local media stated a non-public jet was anticipated to fly Warne’s physique again to his hometown of Melbourne, Australia.

Warne, broadly considered top-of-the-line bowlers of all time, died final Friday whereas holidaying with buddies on Samui Island within the south of Thailand. An post-mortem report stated the 52-year-old Warne died of a suspected coronary heart assault.

The Victoria state authorities is planning to host a state memorial service for Warne on March 30 on the Melbourne Cricket Ground, residence to lots of Warne’s biggest sports activities moments, after the household holds a non-public funeral.

“There’s nowhere in the world more appropriate to farewell Warnie than the ‘G,” Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews posted Wednesday on social media.

There’s nowhere on the planet extra acceptable to farewell Warnie than the ‘G.

Victorians will be capable to pay tribute to Shane and his contribution our state, and his sport, at a memorial service on the MCG on the night of March thirtieth.

Info and tickets might be obtainable quickly.

— Dan Andrews (@DanielAndrewsMP) March 9, 2022

The MCG was the stage of Warne’s well-known Ashes hat trick in 1994 and his 700th take a look at wicket on Boxing Day in 2006 throughout his closing sequence earlier than retiring from worldwide cricket. He was born and raised in Melbourne.

Warne’s household issued a press release late Monday describing the night time of his dying on March 4 as the start of a endless nightmare.