England and Pakistan are set to see a lot of each other during the next 12 months - including a Royal London One-Day International at Trent Bridge in August - and Shane Warne can’t wait to see the two leg-spinners go head-to-head.
Warne sees Pakistan’s Yasir Shah as the leading wrist spinner in the business, but admitted he’d relish the opportunity to help England’s Adil Rashid join his opposite number at the top of the tree.
"It's great, I'm very excited for that. Yasir Shah's a wonderful leg-spinner too, I think he's probably the best going around at the moment,” said Warne.
“When you've got Yasir Shah and Rashid, two good leg-spinners playing, it's going to make for better cricket.
"I help a lot of spinners from all over the world, I've helped Danish Kaneria from Pakistan - in a series against England, actually - there's been lots of leg-spinners, or general spinners, that I've helped over the years and I'm more than happy to talk to anyone.
"I'd love to work with Adil Rashid if the opportunity arises. I had a chat in my last year of county cricket with Michael Vaughan at Yorkshire and he said 'Can you do us a favour and have a chat with Rashid?'
"He was pretty young then but I had a good chat with him. He's a pretty impressive kid, he's been on the scene for a while now and let's hope he grabs his opportunity because it would be great to see England having a leg-spinner."
Shah made his Test debut less than a year ago but has taken to Test cricket like a duck to water, becoming the fastest ever Pakistani to 50 wickets along the way.
Following the likes of Imran Khan, Abdul Qadir, Waqar Younis, Wasim Akram, Mushtaq Ahmed, Saqlain Mushtaq - and latterly Saeed Ajmal - it’s no mean feat for the 29-year-old who, like Rashid, is a relatively latecomer to the highest level of the game.
Whether or not the 27-year-old Yorkshireman matches Shah’s impact will depend in no small part on the captaincy of Alastair Cook according to Warne.
"As a captain, Alastair Cook, it will be great to see how he handles a leg-spinner in Test matches," said Warne.
"It's always fun as a captain to have a leg-spinner in your side. I think it's exciting for England to have that.
“To see Rashid back in the side, I think England have done it pretty well,” the Australian legend added.
"They haven't rushed him in. I would have liked to have seen him play in the West Indies before the Ashes, I think there was an opportunity there. But they've got him through the one-dayers, he's been around the group for a while and he seems to be bowling pretty well.”
Warne, who knows what it takes to win against Pakistan in the Subcontinent having contributed 34 wickets in three Test matches to the series victory in 2002, believes tactical astuteness is key to England’s chances.
"Some of the things we made sure we did, the warm-ups - you're pretty warm as soon as you walk out of the changing room, so you don't need to have a fourth session in the morning," said Warne.
"We worked on the fact the spinners have a huge role to play. Because it was 53 degrees, we had drinks every 20 minutes and the fast bowlers bowled one-over spells.
"McGrath bowled a couple of overs a few times. But it was really short, sharp - the new ball, you get three or four overs, if you can, out of your quicks, then after that it was couple of over spells, you keep rotating them around and the spinners had to bowl longer spells.
"It was really draining, very, very hard and the key as well, when you got in, you've got to stay in, because that can really wear down the opposition and you can score big in the last session. The last hour and a bit, you can nearly score 100 runs.
"All this about aggressive play - aggressive play can also be about wearing down your opposition and letting the ball go well, to keep them out in the field for long periods of time.
“That can also be aggressive cricket, you don't have to score at four-five an over all day. It was all about not losing wickets early and if you got in you had to bat really big."
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