The physique of cricketer Shane Warne arrived at a Bangkok airport Thursday to be flown again to Australia the place the cricket famous person is to obtain a state funeral.
A coffin wrapped within the Australian flag and containing the 52-year-old, who died on Thailand’s Koh Samui island Friday, arrived at Don Mueang airport.
Autopsy outcomes confirmed that the leg-spin bowler — one of many best Test cricketers of all time — died of pure causes after a suspected coronary heart assault.
Warne “didn’t simply encourage a cricketing era — he outlined it,” said a statement by the Victoria government announcing the state funeral would be held on March 30 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
Warne was discovered late Friday at a luxury villa on Koh Samui where he was on holiday, after failing to meet friends that evening.
Shane Warne’s State Funeral Will be Held at MCG on March 30
He was taken to the Thai International Hospital Samui but despite medical efforts he could not be revived.
On Monday, police said an autopsy had found “the death was due to natural causes”.
Surachate Hakparn, assistant to the nationwide police chief, added that Warne’s father mentioned the participant “had been struggling chest pains and was planning to return house for a check-up after this journey”.
In their first public comments since the death on Friday, Warne’s parents, brother, children and ex-wife expressed deep sorrow, paying tribute to one of the greatest Test cricketers of all time and the man they loved.
“To find words to adequately express our sadness is an impossible task for us and looking to a future without Shane is inconceivable,” mother and father Keith and Brigitte Warne mentioned in a press release.
“I miss you a lot already,” said daughter Summer Warne. “I wish I could’ve hugged you tighter in what I didn’t know were my final moments with you.”
“I want I might’ve advised you that all the pieces was going to be OK and maintain your hand.”
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison led tributes to one of the country’s “greatest characters”.
Over the weekend followers paid homage to Warne at his statue exterior the Melbourne Cricket Ground — together with choices of cigarettes, beer and meat pies — to recollect a unprecedented cricketing expertise with an enormous urge for food for all times.
Credited with reviving the artwork of leg-spin, Warne was a part of a dominant Australian Test group within the Nineties and 2000s and helped his nation win the 1999 limited-overs World Cup.
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