A decade since Dad died, cricket has become a reminder of his love for us | Lucianne Tonti

With each series (and what is more exciting than the Ashes at home?) the place gets expanded with new memories forged from the old ones
My brother is asleep on the couch at his in-laws’ summer house in Norway. The room is full of the light of the afternoon sun. From the TV, there is the soft rumble of a stadium crowd then silence, followed by the distinctive knock of a cricket ball on wood. For a moment the crowd gets louder and the players on screen shuffle around, but nothing changes and