It's Been A Sad Week: Steve Smith Reflects On The Losses Of Warne And Marsh
Published - 08 Mar 2022, 02:56 PM | Updated - 23 Aug 2024, 09:58 PM
After cricket great Rod Marsh died of a heart attack at the age of 74, batsman Steve Smith, who is present with the national team in Pakistan, wrote on Twitter that it was “impossible to grasp that we’ve lost two Australian heroes within 24 hours.”
Smith said his team’s morale was good and they were focused on his task here after playing the fourth day of the first test against Pakistan, but it had been a difficult week. “We feel sad for the families of Marsh and Warne, and our condolences surely go out to them,” Smith said after being fired for 78 pitches in the first inning.
Marsh, a former batsman and wicketkeeper, died on March 4th, eight days after suffering a heart attack. At the time, he was 74 years old. Warne was discovered comatose at his home in Koh Samui, Thailand, on Friday night and eventually died. Preliminary autopsy reports threw doubt on Warne’s death, Thai authorities said Monday.
Thailand police said on Monday that they received a preliminary autopsy report from Surat Thani hospital this morning, and that preliminary investigations revealed no evidence of foul play in the 52-year-death, old’s but that an autopsy would still be completed in Thailand.
Legendary Shane Warne:
Warne was regarded as one of the greatest cricketers of all time. When he first came to prominence in the early 1990s, he almost single-handedly revolutionized leg-spin bowling, and by the time he retired from international cricket in 2007, he had been the first bowler to reach 700 Test wickets.
Warne concluded his international career with 708 Test wickets and 293 One-Day International wickets, putting him in second place behind his close friend and adversary Muttiah Muralitharan of Sri Lanka in terms of all-time international wicket-takers (1,347). Shane also led Australia to ten wins and a single loss in 11 One-Day Internationals.
