“I am trying to get as much practice in as I can”. Shah further added that he started bowling while watching Shane Warne spinning the ball on TV.
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Warne will play a small part at England’s training session but the invitation carries on a “tradition” begun by Peter Moores in the Caribbean earlier this year and then continued by England director of cricket Andrew Strauss in inviting legends to address the current team.
Warne has in the past been a vocal critic of the England captain, Alastair Cook, through both his commentary for Sky Sports in the United Kingdom and a newspaper column, with the issue coming to a head before the Headingley Test against Sri Lanka in 2014, when Cook said “something must be done” about the leg-spinner’s relentless negativity. “To me, he just needs to be a little more patient and toil away”.
Warne said that it was a fantastic opportunity to work with Yasir, adding that they had worked on a few tactics and plans to trouble England’s formidable battling line-up, the Guardian reported.
“You get a lot of spin with the drift and that’s the thing I asked him, as he did it very well and I can’t get the break with the drift”.
“I am very happy too after getting his feedback”. On Thursday he had a training clinic with Yasir Shah, the Pakistan leg-spinner, but was also keen to get in touch with England and offer his services to Bayliss. We are bit different, think differently than most people.
The Dubai Test was memorable one for Pakistan’s leg-spinner Yasir Shah, who has achieved the number-two ranking for the first time in his career.
England do not have a full-time spin bowling coach on tour.
“Look I have always been a fan of Shah since the first time I saw him a while ago”, Warne said afterward. He has the best leg break I’ve ever seen!!’ He said he wants Rashid to succeed but was totally amazed by Shah’s way. We couldn’t communicate that well but when he was smiling afterwards I knew what he got was pretty good.
“Hold it across the seam – it’s really important to have it nice and loose which allows you to give it a good flick”.
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Umar Farooq is ESPNcricinfo’s Pakistan correspondent.
