Collingwood upbeat on England

Paul Collingwood believes England need to keep their heads held high in their bid to beat India in their one-day series.

Collingwood saw his men lose by two wickets at The Oval as India levelled the seven-match contest at 3-3.

Owais Shah (107 not out), debutant Luke Wright (50 not out) and Dimitri Mascarenhas (36) helped the home side to a total of 316-6 only for India's batsmen to claim a second successive victory to keep the series alive.

One-day skipper Collingwood said: "From a captain's point of view, when you see a team fighting like that it's a great thing for the future for us.

"We're not going to get it right all the time, we're still saying it's early doors for this one-day side. We need to keep our heads held high, because we know we've done a lot of good things, and regroup for Saturday. It's a massive game, a big final for us."

Mascarenhas became only the fourth batsman in one-day international history, after Herschelle Gibbs, Shahid Afridi and Sanath Jayasuriya to hit 30 in a legitimate six-ball over.

Having scuffed the first delivery from left-arm spinner Yuvraj Singh to mid-on, he began a spree of sixes which began when Piyush Chawla caught him at deep midwicket but fell on the rope.

Mascarenhas, who also hit five sixes in his previous appearance in this series, during a maiden half-century in Bristol, said: "I saw him catch it and just thought 'Touch the rope, touch the rope'. Sometimes you need a bit of luck.

"Once you've done it once you get a bit more confidence and think you can do it again and again.

"They just hit the middle of the bat and he probably bowled them in the right areas for me, to be honest. Five is definitely the most I have hit in one over."

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