An image of Shane Warne looks out over the Melbourne Cricket Ground after it was announced the ground’s Great Southern Stand would be renamed. Photo: AFP
An image of Shane Warne looks out over the Melbourne Cricket Ground after it was announced the ground’s Great Southern Stand would be renamed. Photo: AFP

Shane Warne: Australia mourns loss of cricketing great, officials consider state funeral for ‘Warnie’

  • One of the greatest to ever play the game, Warne died on Friday while on holiday in Thailand
  • Warne remembered as more than just a cricketer also ‘one of the nation’s greatest characters’

An image of Shane Warne looks out over the Melbourne Cricket Ground after it was announced the ground’s Great Southern Stand would be renamed. Photo: AFP
An image of Shane Warne looks out over the Melbourne Cricket Ground after it was announced the ground’s Great Southern Stand would be renamed. Photo: AFP
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