Collingwood Work of Art ; England Start to Look the Picture As Series Is Won Witha Flourish

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WITH a punch of the air, a wave of his bat and a smile that looked like it might crack his face in two, Paul Collingwood completed the victory over India at Lord's which secured a 4-3 win in the NatWest series that had almost everything.

As England's new one-day captain yesterday raised his arms to celebrate knocking off 187 to win with seven wickets and the best part of 14 overs unused, their supporters cheered the moment when the gloom engendered by their disastrous World Cup campaign could be forgotten.

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Collingwood Work of Art ; England Start to Look the Picture As Series Is Won Witha Flourish

And suddenly, just a couple of months after Collingwood, in his first series in charge, had led his team to ignominious defeat by a West Indies outfit derided as a shambles, a very different picture came ...

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