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Shane Warne's LAST moments: How a lads' holiday ended in tragedy

The cricket legend breathed his last on Friday, March 4, even though his friends tried to save him by performing CPR after a suspected heart attack

The last moments of cricket legend Shane Warne have been revealed as the world was shocked by his sudden death due to a suspected heart attack. The Australian spinner breathed his last on Friday, March 4, while vacationing with four friends in Thailand. Police have said that Warne’s pals tried hard to save him by performing CPR but to no avail.

As per reports, the 708-Test wicket great was found unconscious inside his room in Samujana Villas, a luxury resort in Koh Samui. First, Warne's manager Andrew Neophitou did CPR on him for around 20 minutes before he was taken to the Thai International Hospital. But he was declared dead there.

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Warne’s other manager James Erskine, who is also his close friend, claimed that he was on a three-month break from Fox Cricket. Speaking on Fox Cricket’s Shane Warne tribute special, Erskine said: “I got a phone call at 10:37 last night from our guy Andrew Neophitou in Thailand. He only arrived the night before. Then suddenly, they were going to have a drink at 5 and Neo (Neophitou) knocked on his door at 5:15 because Warnie was always on time.”

He added: “What happened was he went in there and said, ‘Come on, you are going to be late’, and then realized that something was wrong. He turned him over and gave him CPR. That lasted about 20 minutes, then obviously the ambulance came. They took him to the hospital which was about a 20-minute drive. I got a phone call about 45 minutes later saying that he was pronounced dead. It is like all these things you work on adrenaline.”

The Daily Mail reported that Police Senior Sergeant Major Suporn Hemruangsree has said, “Police received a report about somebody who died at the Thai International Hospital so we went and asked the hotel, and found out that the deceased was with four other friends and died in the room. In the villa, the people were sleeping in separate rooms. They were sleeping from afternoon to evening, until about 5pm.”

“At 5pm somebody came to call out this person for dinner but the deceased did not respond so they called three other friends to perform CPR for 20 minutes. They waited for the ambulance to come. The doctor announced the death of the person at 6:53pm. Police went and checked the room and there was no sign of intrusion or possessions being searched through. The body was sent for an autopsy at Koh Samui Hospital,” Hemruangsree added.

Also as per AFP, Thailand police said, “No foul play was suspected at the scene based on our investigation.” The Australian megastar cricketer’s death news came hours after he expressed his condolences over the death of Australia's great wicket keeper Rodney Marsh, who also reportedly died because of a cardiac arrest. The 52-year-old had tweeted: “Sad to hear the news that Rod Marsh has passed. He was a legend of our great game & an inspiration to so many young boys &  girls. Rod cared deeply about cricket & gave so much-especially to Australia & England players. Sending lots & lots of love to Ros & the family. RIP mate.”

Meanwhile, several people have taken to Twitter to mourn the loss of Warne. A journalist from Pakistan, Arfa Feroz Zake, tweeted: “The passing away of Shane Warne is big loss to world cricket!The news has saddened every person part of cricket fraternity!Warne mastered and defined art of legspinner! The bodylanguage of Warne was as aggressive as fastbowlers. The world cricket will remember Warne forever. #RIP.” 

Another person shared: “How the life is. The last tweet was About passing of another Cricketer.. Who knews after some hours he will be no more and others would be posting tweets for him. Sad and shocking. We will miss you legend!” Another one wrote, “One of the greatest to grace the game..gone so soon :'(.”