When the difficulty has left the sport. Mentoring works on performance under pressure. If mood, sleep, eating or friendships have changed, that needs a clinician.

The conflict is almost never about time. It is about recovery. Exam year and a serious sporting programme draw on the same limited resource.

Work out first whether this is a difference of opinion or a welfare concern. The two need completely different responses and they get conflated constantly.

One of two things, and both are avoidable. Either everything stops and they come back flat, or nothing stops and they come back empty.

The performance problem is not screen time in general. It is two specific hours: the one before sleep and the one after a bad performance.

Ask what they would do with a completely free Saturday. Someone doing it for themselves answers immediately. Someone doing it for you watches your face first.

Fewer hours than most families expect, with one completely empty day every week and one genuine off season every year.

Usually not before sixteen, and when the time comes the decision should rest on which one they would miss, not which one they are better at.

The biggest structural advantage available to a young cricketer in either country, and the fastest way to burn one out. The difference is a block, not a second season.