Shane Warne is chaired off after his final game at the MCG. The Great Southern Stand will be renamed after him.

Shane Warne is chaired off after his final game at the MCG. The Great Southern Stand will be renamed after him.Credit:Vince Caligiuri

Mr Pakula said that Premier Daniel Andrews had already spoken with the MCG Trust and exchanged text messages with Jason Warne,Shane Warne’s brother,on Saturday and the renaming will happen as quickly as possible.

“I don’t want to talk through talk about the[renaming] process other than to say I had a conversation with Dan a couple of hours ago and he’s exchanged messages with Shane’s brother and whilst they might be a technical process that would normally be gone through,sometimes you need to dispense with that,” Mr Pakula said.

“You need to respond in the way that I think the whole community would think is appropriate.”

One of Australia’s greatest ever cricketers, Warne died of a suspected heart attack,while on vacation in Thailand.

He was 52.

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