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

‘I’m sure you can pick up “enjoying cricket” as an adult but, as with learning how to swim, or speak Mandarin, it’s much easier as a kid,’ Kate Lyons writes. Photograph: Darrian Traynor/Getty Images

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.