BANGKOK: Australian cricket great Shane Warne died a natural death, the Thai police said on Monday following an autopsy showed the death last week of on an island in Thailand was due to natural causes.
His body would be transferred to Australian consular officials for return to the family, a deputy police spokesman said.
“Today investigators received the autopsy result, in which the medical opinion is that the cause of death is natural,” Kissana Phathanacharoen said in a statement.
Australian media said Warne’s family funeral would be followed by a memorial service at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) within two or three weeks.
The Great Southern Stand at the MCG, where the spinner took his 700th wicket on Boxing Day 2006, will be renamed the S K Warne Stand.
