Shane Warne news today: Legendary Australian spinner dies due to suspected heart attack

Dixit Bhargav | 04/03/2022
Cricketer death today: Twitter reactions on Shane Warne's shocking death

Shane Warne death: The cricketing fraternity around the world has suffered a colossal setback due to the demise of Shane Warne.

Legendary Australia spinner Shane Warne has passed away due to a suspected heart attack. The utterly shocking development was made public by Fox Sports when they tweeted the demise of one of the greatest cricketers to have played the game of cricket.

Warne, 52, breathed his last in Thailand where he was found “unresponsive” in his villa.

“Shane was found unresponsive in his villa and despite the best efforts of medical staff, he could not be revived,” read a statement from Warne’s management.

“The family requests privacy at this time and will provide further details in due course.”

Warne’s death has come less than 24 hours after the passing away of former Australia wicket-keeper batter Rod Marsh. Warne had himself taken to social media platform Twitter to share condolences with Marsh’s family this morning.

Having made his Test debut against India during the New Year’s Test of 1992, Warne went on to play 339 matches for Australia in the next one and a half a decade. Only the second bowler after former Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan (1,347) to pick 1,000 international wickets, Warne is the second-highest wicket-taker with 1,001 wickets under his belt with the help of 38 five-wicket hauls.

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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