The Moment That Shane Warne Was Found In His Hotel Room And Rushed To Hospital Has Been Described

Details of Shane Warne's shocking death on Friday have been revealed by the former cricket star's friend and manager James Erskine.

Now details of Warne being found in his hotel room before being rushed to hospital have been revealed by Erskine, after the former cricketer was found by colleague Andrew Neophitou.

"They were going to have a drink at 5pm or go and meet someone to go out and have a drink at 5pm," Erskine told Fox Sports on a tv special 'Remembering Shane Warne.'

"Neo knocked on his door at 5.15 because Warnie is always on time.

"And he went in there and said 'come on, you're going to be late' and then realised something was wrong.

"And he turned him over and gave him CPR and mouth to mouth, which lasted about 20 minutes and then the ambulance came.

"They took him to the hospital, which was about a 20-minute drive and I got a phone call about 45 minutes later saying he was pronounced dead."

Erskine, who also revealed that Warne had wanted a year off work but had settled on three months, that he was just starting, was the man who had to tell the commentator's family about the tragic news.

"It is like all these things you work on adrenaline," the former Hampshire player's manager told Fox.

"You are not much help to anyone if you are a blubbering mess. I’m very lucky my mind works clinically.

"I was talking to Keith last night when his son was dead. He was going to go and see the three children and talking to Brooke and to Jackson I was not going to tell them that their father was dead because he wasn’t at that stage pronounced dead. But I said it looks pretty grim.

“Simone (Warne’s ex-wife and mother of his three children) had gone to pick up the youngest child Summer and we then called Simone and said, listen you better