Brooke Warne is throwing a Christmas bash that her late dad Shane Warne would be proud of.

The cricket legend - affectionately nicknamed the King of Spin - died from a heart attack while on holiday in Koh Samui, Thailand, aged 52 in March 2022, and he always loved getting all of his family together for the festive season.

And his 27-year-old daughter, Brooke, cannot think of a better way to pay tribute to her beloved dad for the holidays than by keeping the family tradition alive with a big Christmas party at The Crown Sydney’s presidential villa.

She told the Herald Sun: “Christmas will never be the same, and our birthdays won’t be the same because Dad was such a big part of that.

“He always wanted to go over and above for Christmas, and this will be the fourth one without him, so it’s a tough one.

“But I’m getting the family together, and it’ll be a reminder that even though Dad isn’t here, it’s a big deal and he’d love that. Ever since I was little, Dad was always getting everyone together, and on Christmas Eve, he’d always do something because the cricket players were in town.”

According to the publication, Brooke is doing the event with Bianca Roccisano and Bridgett Roccisano, the founders of Booby Tape.

And the Herald Sun also reports that guests will be able to indulge in “volando tequila, a pasta wheel”.

Warne said of the big get-together: “I’ve never hosted an event before, and the theme is going to blow everyone away.”

It comes after Brooke recalled the agony she experienced on the night she found out Shane had died.

Brooke remembered finishing work on the Friday evening, and “having such a nice night” with her family, including her brother Jackson Warne, 25, sister Summer Warne, 22, Brooke’s partner Alex Heath, and mum Simone Callahan, 55, before Jackson got the phone call from Shane’s manager, Andrew Neophitou.

In an appearance on Jackson’s Warnes Way podcast earlier in December, Brooke told her brother: “Not for one minute did I think something had happened to Dad. I remember you hung up the phone and said, ‘Dad’s had a massive heart attack’.

“We stood up, and I remember I couldn’t breathe. I felt like I had this out-of-body experience, and I didn’t think what was happening was happening.

“I couldn’t breathe, Alex was blowing air into my face, and I was trying to get myself together. I felt a sense of disbelief.”

Brooke recalled her and the rest of the Warne clan “screaming” before Summer “collapsed” as they endured a two-and-a-half-hour wait before finding out that the doctors’ attempts to resuscitate Shane had been unsuccessful.

Brooke - who felt a “sense of numbness” and was “distraught” - added: “That night, I remember it was raining, and I sat on that balcony and I screamed and I cried.”

And she is still struggling to come to terms with Shane’s death nearly four years later.

Brooke admitted: “Grief never goes away. You learn how to deal with it and how to deal with those people not being here, but you deal with grief for the rest of your life.”