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Friend of Warne reveals final hours before cricketer’s death

Tributes lie on the statue of the late cricketer Shane Warne outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on Saturday. (Reuters photo)

MELBOURNE: Shane Warne offered gifts of his old cricket clothing and ate the traditional Australian snack of Vegemite on toast in the final hours before his death on Friday, an associate of the cricketing great said.

Tom Hall was staying at the resort on Koh Samui in Surat Thani province, where Warne was found unconscious in his room in a villa he shared with three travelling companions.

Hall, chief executive of The Sporting News website, said there were “no unusual circumstances” surrounding Warne’s death on Friday after the former spin bowler caught up with friends and watched some cricket on TV.

“The first question is, ‘How can we watch Australia v Pakistan test…

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