Tim Bresnan is desperate to brush up on his skills in Twenty20 cricket in a bid to help England retain their world 20-over crown in Sri Lanka next year – and he wants Yorkshire to help him do it.

Bresnan is keen to play a bigger role for his county in next season’s Friends Life t20 competition. He admits that his lack of exposure to the short-form game is a frustration, with the World Twenty20 tournament scheduled immediately after the next English summer.

The all-rounder, 26, only played nine Twenty20 matches in the calendar year of 2011, six of them coming for England and the other three for the White Rose.

England have seven more T20 internationals inked in against Pakistan, the West Indies and South Africa between now and the defence of the crown they won in the Caribbean in 2009.

And Bresnan said: “I do love playing Twenty20 cricket, but I’ve only played a handful of games this year, and that isn’t enough.

“We are the No 1 side in the world in this form of the game, and we want to keep on improving to keep that place. But we can’t do that if we don’t play in that form of the game.

“I would love to play more domestic Twenty20 cricket because I love playing for Yorkshire.

“Some of the games, especially against Lancashire when it’s like an international match, are great to play in.”

Bresnan’s next task is a tour of Middle East in January, where England will play Pakistan in three Tests, four one-dayers and three Twenty20 internationals.

It is the first time the teams will have met since the 2010 summer of the spot-fixing scandal, which resulted in Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir being jailed for conspiring to bowl no-balls during the Lord’s Test.

But, while the media spotlight will still be on the scandal and how it has affected relations between the two camps, Bresnan insists the players will be concentrating purely on the cricket.

He added: “It might be on the media’s minds, but it won’t be on ours.

“The fact that it happened in the first place was a big shock. The punishment was less so because we get educated enough to know that if you do it you will be in series trouble.

“Everyone knows the consequence of their actions. You have to be held accountable for your actions.”