ADIL Rashid must resist calls for him to bowl quicker, says Yorkshire's director of professional cricket Martyn Moxon.

The White Rose leg-spinning all-rounder has shown encouraging form in his first two Test matches for England, performing with bat and ball against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi and Dubai during the last fortnight.

The 27-year-old Bradfordian returned second-innings figures of 5-64 in the first Test as England almost snatched a win when a draw looked certain on day five. That came after 0-163 in the first innings – the worst figures by a Test debutant.

He then hit 61 in the second Test at Dubai on Monday to give England an unlikely chance of saving the match before holing out to cover off fellow leggie Yasir Shah with just 6.3 overs remaining.

Shah has made an exceptional start to his Test career, taking 69 wickets in 11 matches.

He bowls the ball quicker than Rashid, with a number of pundits, including David Lloyd, suggesting the Yorkshireman should follow suit in a move which has worked for fellow England spinner Moeen Ali – but Moxon disagrees.

Ahead of Sunday's final Test at Sharjah, which England head into 1-0 down, Moxon said: "The last thing I said to Rash before he went away was 'trust what works for yourself'.

"All the best players learn from their experiences, and quickly. I'm sure he'll be picking up bits from every game he plays.

"But I think the most important thing is that he trusts what's worked for him at Yorkshire.

"I know there's talk on the international scene about him needing to bowl quicker, but I just hope that he trusts his own game because when he's bowling at his best, I think his pace is quick enough.

"I just hope he doesn't get hounded to bowl it quicker because the problem with Rash when he does bowl it quicker is that it gets flatter and doesn't spin. I think you've seen in international cricket that if you don't spin it, you're in trouble.

"Everybody's different. You can't clone people to be like somebody else. If you could clone a Shane Warne, everybody would do it.

"The facts are that if Rash is concentrating solely on spinning the ball and giving it a little bit of air, that's when he's most effective."

Moxon has also called for patience with regards to Jonny Bairstow's wicket-keeping as he prepares to take the gloves at Sharjah from struggling Jos Buttler.

Bairstow, also Bradford-born like Rashid, has played the first two Tests against Pakistan as a specialist batsman, with only two of his 19 Tests to date coming as a keeper – against Australia in the 2013-14 Ashes series.

"If he does keep wicket, I just hope people bear in mind that it's a while since he's kept in a match and Jos has been allowed a couple of errors. I just hope that Jonny's allowed the same if they happen," Moxon added.

"Jonny's a very capable keeper when he's keeping regularly. Keeping is something you've got to be doing regularly to be at your best. You can't keep once every blue moon and expect to be brilliant.

"That's potentially going to be a problem. It was the last game of last season where he kept regularly, although he did a bit in a warm-up game over there."