Shane Warne offers Adil Rashid first-innings advice

Adil Rashid must learn the art of first-innings bowling to improve at Test level, according to cricket's greatest leg-spinner.

Rashid is the first wrist-spinner in 15 years to play successive Tests for England and has seven wickets in two games against Pakistan heading into the final game on Sunday.

But just one of those wickets has come in the first innings, and the Yorkshire all-rounder has gone at more than four an over during both those innings.

And Shane Warne, who earlier this month offered to help Rashid establish himself as a Test regular, says the newcomer's first-innings priority should be to stifle run-scoring.

"I had to learn [to bowl in the first innings]," Warne, who took 708 Test wickets for Australia, told Cricinfo.

"It's all the subtleties of a leg-spinner, patience, changing position on the crease, not bowling the same ball twice, don't attack too much with the field, basically try to tie up an end - especially here where it's so hot, so the quicks can rotate.

"It's about trying to beat them in flight, get them driving. My line would change a bit - you'd go a bit wider, then you'd use the faster, straighter one as a major weapon.

"But the hard-spun leg-break is the real key, and you just had to try that as much as you could. That was basically it for the first two days."

Rashid's opposite number in the Pakistan line-up is Yasir Shah, whose eight wickets in the second-Test win in Dubai means he now has 69 in just 11 matches.

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"They are completely different bowlers," Warne said. "Yasir is a real hustle-and-bustle leg-spinner. To me he's the best in international cricket at the moment, and I hope Rashid will get better.

"He's not as fluent as someone like Yasir, but that doesn't mean he's not as effective. If he gets his confidence up I think he can be a real handful."