{"id":797161,"date":"2026-10-09T16:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T16:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797161\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T16:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T16:02:09","slug":"walk-helps-ex-worcestershire-cricketer-fall-back-in-love-with-uk-after-health-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797161\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk helps ex-Worcestershire cricketer fall back in love with UK after health battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An ex-cricketer who spent a year in hospital suffering with mental health issues has said taking on a walking challenge allowed her to fall back in love with the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Olivia Robinson, who grew up in Worcester before moving to Australia to work as an artist, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c39dj170le9o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">walked from Land&#8217;s End to John O&#8217;Groats<\/a> over three months last year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She visited 60 cricket clubs on a 1,072 mile (1,726km) journey and raised more than \u00a310,000 for cricket charity Chance to Shine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Robinson said the walk helped her gain a new appreciation for the country she had left under difficult circumstances, adding: &#8220;I wanted to come back and approach the whole of the UK with a different attitude and I did, I absolutely fell in love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 37-year-old now lives in Perth but during her youth she had been a Worcestershire cricket pathway player before anorexia forced her to give up the sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;I struggled a bit at school and I did struggle with my mental health, and unfortunately I became quite unwell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I spent a year living in a hospital for mental health issues and I really had to come back to the UK and connect with the country and rewrite my relationship with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An ex-cricketer who spent a year in hospital suffering with mental health issues has said taking on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-797161","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\/797161","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=797161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}