Shane Warne, the greatest leg-spinner\u00a0and an Australian cricket star, has died at the age of 52.<\/p>\n
In the early hours of Saturday (AEDT), Warne\u2019s management issued a brief statement stating that he died of a suspected heart attack in Koh Samui, Thailand.<\/p>\n
\u201cDespite the greatest efforts of medical staff, Shane was found lifeless in his villa and could not be recovered,\u201d Warne\u2019s management said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this time, the family requests privacy and will share further information as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Warne had just paid his respects to another renowned Australian cricketer, Rod Marsh, who had passed away less than 24 hours before.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was a legend in our great game and a role model for so many young boys and girls. Rod was passionate about cricket and generous with his time and resources, especially to Australian and English players \u201cAccording to Warne.<\/p>\n
Since making his debut in 1992, Warne has appeared in 145 Tests for Australia, taking 708 wickets. Warne took 293 wickets in 194 ODI appearances.<\/p>\n
Warne was a member of the famed Australian cricket team that went on to rule the globe. During his tenure with Australia, the legspinner established a historic career and was affectionately known as \u2018Warnie.\u2019 After retiring, he continued to be a famous personality, establishing a successful television career as a pundit and expert.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Following his retirement, Warne became famous for captaining and coaching Rajasthan Royals to a fairy-tale title triumph in the inaugural season of the Indian Premier League in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shane Warne, who retired as Test cricket\u2019s second most prolific wicket-taker, is largely considered as one of the game\u2019s finest bowlers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":26608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2613,782],"class_list":["post-3536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-australian-cricket","tag-shane-warne"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}