Glenn McGrath recalls his final phone call with cricket legend Shane Warne

Glenn McGrath has recalled his final phone call with his good friend and former teammate Shane Warne before the cricket legend’s shock death.

Thai police have confirmed the 52-year-old suffered a suspected heart attack while holidaying in Thailand on Friday, listing natural causes as his cause of death.

Watch Glenn McGrath pay tribute to Warnie in the video above

McGrath, who retired from cricket on the same day as Warne in 2007, told Sunrise on Tuesday he had phoned his friend last week to thank him for appearing on a recent episode of ABC’s Australian Story about his late wife, Jane.

“He picked the phone up and we had a great chat, we talked for ages about the normal stuff, how the family is going, the kids, what he’s got coming up,” he explained.

“He was so full of energy, so full of life.”

McGrath said Warne told him he was “heading over to Koh Samui” for a “bit of a business/holiday trip”.

“I feel very lucky and I really treasure that conversation now because at the time I didn’t realise it would be the last time we spoke.”

“I feel like there was nothing left unsaid.”

Warne’s body will be brought back to Australia from Thailand on Tuesday, where a state funeral is likely to be held at the MCG in the coming weeks.

Watch the video below for the latest on bringing Warnie’s body home

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McGrath said he has “so many memories” with Warne, who he described an an “amazing and incredible” person.

“At the end of the day, he was just a normal bloke, he was a big personality, a big character and seemed to live a life that the rest of us only dreamt about,” he told Natlalie Barr and David Koch.

“I had so