My five-year-old daughter is learning to love cricket. It’s a source of delight in a difficult summer | Kate Lyons

Watching the Ashes has felt like a small bright spot. Something for Australians to cheer about when our hearts are broken

One of the many joys of this Ashes series is that this summer my daughter has begun to care about cricket.

And there is nothing that reminds you of the beautiful weirdness of the game so much as trying to explain it to a relentlessly curious five-year-old.