Thailand police have reportedly found “blood stains” on the floor of Shane Warne’s room and on bath towels while searching the villa where the legendary Australian cricketer died while holidaying.

The 52-year-old cricketing legend was declared dead by doctors in the Thai International Hospital on Friday night, after friends tried to revive him in his luxury villa hours earlier.

On Sunday, skynews.com.au quoted the Thai media as saying that the Thai police had found blood on the floor and bath towels in the room Warne was staying.

“A large amount of blood was found in the room,” Satit Polpinit, a commander of the local provincial police, told Thai media. “When CPR was started, the deceased had coughed up liquid and was bleeding.”

According to the Koh Samui’s Bo Phut police station superintendent Yuttana Sirisomba, Warne had “seen a doctor about his heart” recently, following which they have ruled out treating it as suspicious death.

The spinner will receive a state funeral, an Australian government official confirmed on Sunday.

Australian MP Daniel Andrews, the Premier of Victoria, announced on Twitter that Warne’s family has allowed the public to mourn with them.

“I’ve spoken with the Warne family again today (Sunday) and they have accepted my offer of a State Funeral to remember Shane,” Andrews tweeted. “It will be an opportunity for Victorians to pay tribute to his contribution to his sport, to our state and the country,” he wrote, adding the details would be finalised in the coming days.

Children in shock

Warne’s family has been “shattered” by his sudden death and his children are in “complete shock,” his long-time manager, James Erskine, said on Sunday, as the player’s body was taken for an autopsy.

“The three children are in complete shock,” Erskine told the Nine Network’s Today morning show on Sunday. “I spoke to them yesterday (Saturday) and ... Jackson just said, ‘We expect him to walk in the door. This is like a bad dream’.”

Warne had Jackson, Summer and Brooke with Simone Callahan, to whom he was married for 10 years until they divorced in 2005.

“Keith, Shane’s father, is a pretty strong individual, but like everybody, he’s just shattered, they can’t believe what’s happened,” Erskine said.

On Sunday, Warne’s body, flanked by the Australian ambassador and local police, arrived in the southern city of Surat Thani for an autopsy after a 90-minute ferry ride from Koh Samui.

The police said there were no indications that the cause of his death was not a heart attack. “Based on the evidence, we don’t see other possible cause of death,” Yutthana Srisombat, superintendent of police in Bo Phut, said.

“His friends also said that he had had chest pain since he was in Australia, but we still need an autopsy result to find out the true cause of death.”