BANGKOK (Reuters) – The physique of Australian cricket icon Shane Warne remained in Thailand for one more day on Tuesday, police stated, as consular officers labored on logistics to convey home the person extensively regarded as one of the best spin bowlers of all time.
Warne, age 52, died final Friday whereas on vacation on the island of Koh Samui. Local authorities stated Warne died as a result of a suspected coronary heart assault and congenital illness.
Thai police had indicated his physique may very well be repatriated on Tuesday. However, Kissana Phathanacharoen, a police spokesperson, stated Warne’s physique was at a Bangkok police hospital late Tuesday the place it could stay till a flight was organized.
“It is now a matter of ready for the Australians to organise a flight… there aren’t any causes for Thai facet to conduct any additional examination,” he stated.
Tributes from the world over have been pouring in for Warne, with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison calling him “one of our nation’s best characters”.
Australia’s embassy in Thailand on Tuesday stated preparations have been nonetheless being made to fly the cricketer’s physique home and directed media enquiries to its overseas ministry in Canberra, which stated it was aiding the household and wouldn’t remark additional owing to its request for privateness.
Australian media has stated Warne’s household funeral can be adopted by a memorial service on the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) inside two or three weeks.
The Nine Network reported the Great Southern Stand, the place the spinner took his 700th wicket in 2006, can be renamed the S.Ok. Warne Stand in his honour.
(Reporting by Panu Wongcha-um and Jiraporn Kuhakan; Writing by Martin Petty, enhancing by Pritha Sarkar)
