{"id":627080,"date":"2026-06-08T06:24:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627080\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T06:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:24:24","slug":"memorial-day-for-cricketer-graham-thorpe-to-return-to-kia-oval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627080\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial day for cricketer Graham Thorpe to return to Kia Oval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A fundraising day in memory of former England cricketer Graham Thorpe will return to the Kia Oval later this month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Day for Thorpey will take place on 19 June during the second Test match between England and New Zealand, with money raised supporting people&#8217;s mental health through a cricket-based programme. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The event, organised by mental health charity Mind and Surrey County Cricket Club, will raise funds for the Bat &amp; Chat programme, which helps people build friendships and improve self-care through the sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Organisers said last year&#8217;s inaugural event raised more than \u00a3170,000. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/czxp5e16r3eo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thorpe died in Esher, Surrey, in 2024.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fundraising day in memory of former England cricketer Graham Thorpe will return to the Kia Oval later&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-627080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}