Jackson Warne thanks fans for Shane Warne tribute at Boxing Day test

Jackson Warne has thanked followers who paid tribute to his late father on the Boxing Day take a look at on the MCG yesterday.

The occasion noticed 70,000 followers descend on the cricket grounds on Monday to see Australia host South Africa and pay tribute to the late nice Shane Warne.

”Thanks to everybody who attended the Boxing Day take a look at and that was sporting a floppy hat and zinc,” Jackson mentioned in a TikTok video.

Watch the video above.

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“I used to be really on the recreation yesterday, and it was actually actually cool to see everybody in white.”

It is the primary Boxing Day Take a look at since Shane’s dying at age 52 in March, and the punters turned out in droves to pay their respects.

Past sporting floppy hats and zinc in a nod to the leg-spin legend, the gang additionally gave an ovation of applause at 3.50pm for over a minute in his honour, the importance of the time mendacity in Shane’s Australian taking part in quantity, which was No.350.

Jackson went on to elucidate different reminiscent and nostalgic moments in the course of the take a look at. 

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“It was cool speaking to Gilly [Adam Gilchrist] as nicely, with my Fox Cricket interview, in entrance of the Shane Warne stand,” he mentioned.

“The Shane Warne Boxing take a look at was simply very particular.”

Throughout his interview with Fox Cricket, Jackson opened up about his father’s legacy.

“I believe being the explanation somebody does one thing optimistic of their lives, whether or not they began cricket as a result of they needed to bowl leg-spin [or] they watch the cricket [and] simply seeing the quantity of individuals he is affected all over the world bowling leg-spin. How [he has] impacted actual individuals’s lives doing actual issues,” Jackson mentioned.

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“To see that because the memorial, everyone sees the identical Shane I noticed, which was the daddy and the nice dad … [he] was the best father ever and my greatest good friend.”

Many speeches got in respect of Shane’s passing, together with by Aboriginal elder of the Kulin Nation, Aunty Pleasure Murphy Wandin.

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“At this time we rejoice additionally the legendary Shane Warne. And to his household and associates which is every one among your right here right now, what a legend,” she mentioned.

“It will all the time be his resting place right here on Wurundjeri nation.”

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