Shane Warne state funeral reside updates: In the wake of cricket legend Shane Warne’s dying from a suspected coronary heart assault on the age of 52 in Thailand on March 4, “larger than life” was a typical description of the Australian leg-spin bowler from his fellow cricket stars, actors, comedians, musicians, politicians, personalities and on a regular basis followers.
Coldplay vocalist Chris Martin wrote a track, The Eulogy, which was performed on the non-public household funeral on March 20. On Wednesday (March 30), will probably be one of many tributes, together with others from Elton John, Robbie Williams and Sheeran, performed at a public memorial service at Warne’s beloved Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).
More than 50,000 folks will collect for the memorial on the stadium the place Warne produced a few of his milestone moments — together with taking his 700th wicket in check cricket in 2006, one thing he was the primary to attain. A bit on the huge MCG venue can be renamed in Warne’s honor. A statue of Warne in a full supply stride already stands exterior the stadium and has grow to be an unofficial place for folks to mirror and lay tributes for the final three weeks.
Warne’s three youngsters — Brooke, Jackson and Summer — can be on stage through the two-hour memorial which can be broadcast reside throughout Australia and embody the musical performances in addition to video tributes from, amongst others, India’s cricket nice, Sachin Tendulkar.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
