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#5 Steve Waugh visits Varanasi to immerse the ashes of his friend

Waugh visited Varanasi to scatter the ashes of his friend (Picture – PTI)

Even after retiring from the game for more than 13 years now, former Aussie captain Steve Waugh makes frequent trips to India. His involvement with various charities has brought him back to this part of the world quite often.

But last week, he visited Varanasi for a completely different reason – to scatter the ashes of his Sydney-based shoe-shiner friend.

“It was a lifetime opportunity for me and I really wanted to visit that city. It has a very spiritual feeling. To have the honour and privilege of scattering the remains of Brian (Rudd), I feel great about it. He had a very tough life and didn’t have a family. His last wish was to have ashes scattered in the Ganges. I am very glad to have done something for him and it was a celebration of his life,” India Today quoted Waugh as saying.