PIERS Morgan has called for his close friend Shane Warne to get a knighthood after the cricket legend's tragic death.
Warne, 52, was with pals at a luxury villa when he was found unresponsive on Friday.
His desperate friends performed CPR for around 20 minutes before paramedics took him to the Thai International Hospital, where he was sadly pronounced dead.
Pal Piers is now calling for Warne to be given a knighthood after his incredible cricket career.
He tweeted: "Shane Warne was the only one of Wisden’s 5 greatest cricketers of 20th Century not to be knighted.
"He wasn’t Mother Teresa but if Gavin bloody Williamson can get a gong then so should Warnie, posthumously, for services to cricket & charity. Make it happen @BorisJohnson#SirShane".
Australians are able to receive UK Honours as they are a Commonwealth country.
The plea comes after Piers branded his close pal "unique, ferocious, mischievous" in his column for The Sun.
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He added: "I’m absolutely gutted he’s gone so soon and will miss him enormously.
"But I enjoyed every second of my hundreds of hours in his exhilarating, unpredictable and always entertaining company, and of how many people in life can you say that?"
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Shane captained the Australia national team in One Day Internationals and was widely considered one of the greatest bowlers in cricket history.
As well as playing internationally, he played domestic cricket for his home state of Victoria and English domestic cricket for Hampshire.
The star was captain of Hampshire for 3 seasons from 2005 to 2007 and played his first test match in 1992 and took over 1,000 international wickets.
Perhaps the most-viewed cricket clip of all time, the icon's Ball of the Century at Old Trafford in 1993 was the start of the leg-spinner’s legend.
His very first delivery in Ashes cricket swerved in the air, landed outside Mike Gatting’s leg stump and turned so savagely that it clipped the top of off stump.
Australia won the match and clinched the Ashes. Gatting’s bemused look as he trudged off was a picture.
On December 21, 2006, Warned announced his retirement following the fifth Ashes Test match at the SCG.
He said it was his intention to "go out on top" and added that he might have retired after the 2005 Ashes series if Australia had won.
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