MARTYN MOXON believes Jonny Bairstow is ready for the challenge of taking the wicketkeeping gloves for England this weekend, but hopes the York star is given time to prove his worth.

Yorkshire ace Bairstow is set to take over from the struggling Jos Buttler for Sunday’s third and final Test match against Pakistan at Sharjah, with England looking to overturn a 1-0 deficit.

Buttler’s lack of runs this year looks set to cost him, with 26-year-old Bairstow ready to take the gloves for only the third time in his 19-Test career.

Yorkshire director of professional cricket Moxon has described Bairstow as a “very capable keeper”, but admits his lack of match time behind the stumps of late could prove to be an issue.

“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,” he said. “I just hope that Jonny’s allowed the same if they happen.

“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.”

Bairstow has played in the first two Tests against Pakistan at Abu Dhabi and Dubai as a specialist batsman, scoring eight, 15, 46 and 22 in four innings. He has kept twice in Tests - against Australia in the final two Tests of the 2013-14 Ashes series.

Moxon has also urged Bairstow’s Yorkshire and England team-mate Adil Rashid to resist calls to bowl the ball quicker as pundits compare him to Pakistan leg-spinner Yasir Shah.

Rashid, 27, has made an encouraging start to life as a Test cricketer with both ball and bat.

He 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 Shah with 6.3 overs remaining.

Shah has taken an impressive 69 wickets in only 11 Tests.

He bowls the ball quicker than Rashid, with a number of pundits, including David Lloyd, suggesting the Yorkshireman should follow suit. Moxon disagrees.

“The last thing I said to Rash before he went away was, ‘Trust what works for yourself’,” he said.

“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.”