Shane Warne's son Jackson has spoken out on the devastating way he learned his father had died.
The Australian cricketing legend sadly passed away in 2022 at the age of 52, after suffering a heart attack while in Thailand.
Warne, who inspired his own set of special rules on I'm a Celebrity, was something of a nemesis for the England cricket team, as his devious right-arm spin bowling regularly broke English hearts during The Ashes, while he also famously delivered the 'ball of the century' when he bowled out Mike Gatting.
But his good-nature and humour made him a popular figure nonetheless, and it was a huge shock for his family and sports fans when news of his death first broke.
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Sadly for his son Jackson, who was just 22 at the time, the news of his father's passing had reached almost the entire world by the time he actually found out.
Speaking on his first podcast Warnes Way, which launched on Monday night, he said: “I found out at the same time as the rest of the world.
“Worst phone call of my life - it was James Erskine, dad’s manager. It was in two separate phone calls — the first phone call was he’s had a heart attack, it was a massive heart attack and we’re trying to see what we can do.
“Then it was an hour and a half and the worst hour and a half of all time. I was with my partner, my mum, my older sister Brooke and her partner. It was just the worst hour and a half — we were like 'what the f.*** - what’s just happened.'
“And I thought surely that’s not what’s going to get him. There was not a single part of me that thought dad wouldn’t make it. That thought wasn’t there 100 per cent. I looked at him as superman, I didn’t think anything would happen to him. It still is such a shock.”
Both Jackson and his older sister Brooke suggested not long after their father's death that they feel a simple test could have saved his life, but sadly the sporting sensation lost his life at far too young an age.
His son added: “About a month before dad passed, he told me about something he was working on and wanted to develop. An app, a bit like a video platform, he said where so many people don’t get to see the nice things people say about them before they pass away.
“Everybody, when someone passes, says all these nice things but they never get to hear it. You’ve got all the accounts and it can be a video just to you or public, but an app where you could hear all the nice things people would say about you.
“One thing that makes me a little bit sad, there’s been so many honours since he’s passed, me and Brooke would always say why did it take him passing for all this to happen.
"I wish he’d got to feel the magnitude he had with everyone all around the world. I know he felt it but wish he got to experience it. I’m lucky and I’m so proud and my first instinct is I wish dad could have seen it.”
Topics: Cricket
James Moorhouse