Cricket News: Andrew Symonds, a former Australia all-rounder, recounted a storey from his playing days as he remembered Shane Warne ahead of the State Memorial Service to honour the great leg-spinner, who died earlier this month after suffering a suspected heart attack. Warne, 52, died of natural causes while on vacation on the Thai island of Koh Samui, according to Thai authorities.
Symonds, who shared the dressing room with Warne for much of the latter’s international career, remembered finding a suitcase full of cash in Warne’s hotel room.
“We were playing a Test match here, I think it was against South Africa in the Boxing Test,” he recounted.
“The third day we were into and I remember walking in and his gear was just all over the floor. He used to have a lot of socks and a lot of boots, and in between all his big woollen cricket socks was this Woolworths bag full of rolled-up $100 notes.”
Symonds remembered questioning Warne on why the money had appeared, as he laughed.
“It sort of caught my eye as I went past, just rolls and rolls of money. I said to Warnie, ‘Mate what’s the story here?’. He goes, ‘Oh I had a little win at the casino last night Roy and you know what? Cash is king’.
“It was about 40-grand laying on the ground there!
“You realise how special he was,” Symonds said.
Symonds expressed his gratitude for having met Warne. “He was incredibly generous, and he would always go out of his way to aid someone he cared about.” “I was fortunate to fall into that bracket,” the former Australian all-rounder stated.
Many former Australian cricketers, including Glenn McGrath and Michael Clarke, attended Warne’s memorial service, which was held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
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