A large parcel delivery company in Suffolk has a central warehouse that moves thousands of parcels through every day. Delivery on time is their business so any failure in the conveyor belt means massive losses in profits.

You can guess what happened: The conveyor belt failed.

The company tried to fix it, but everything they tried failed. Time is money so they called in a consultant.

With one look he walked to a small box, opened it, turned a single screw and restarted the belt. It all took less than 2 minutes.

Later his invoice arrived. It was for £506

The company thought that was a lot for 2 minutes work and demanded a breakdown of his bill. He supplied it as follows:

• £6 for turning the screw.
• £500 for knowing which screw to turn.

What has this got to do with cricket?

Sometimes your performance isn’t about training harder or trying harder. It’s about knowing what to do at the right moment: Knowing which screw to turn.

Tonight (Wednesday) sees your last chance to get to know what screws you can turn in preparation for our opening match on Saturday. We are back at Hatfield for indoor nets, and the session begins at 9pm.