Monday 14 March 2011

Paul Collingwood rejects retirement talk

England's Paul Collingwood is a day at number eight on the future of Bangladesh during the World Cup defeat to bat after coming off speculation scotched.

Collingwood in January this year during the Sydney Test against Australia Test matches and Twenty20 cricket one-day drop myself to focus on allowing.

Durham all - rounder, a famous World Twenty20 success of last year to lead England in this tournament so far has had an unimpressive run, 61 runs and only one wicket in four league matches management.

Collingwood, 34, said, "One reason I retired from Test cricket was to prolong the one-day side of things and I still feel I have major contributions to make".

I'm still the Twenty20 captain. I want to continue that as well. It's not in my mind to even think about things like this (my future).

I see things developing very much how the Twenty20 did last year in the West Indies. We scraped through the group stages, but once we did we really put our performances together and went on to win it.

We really need to focus on getting this complete game. You put the whole thing together, and we're a formidable team. We want to do that against the West Indies."

Collingwood said the World Cup schedule, that serious Ashes in Australia and one-day campaign followed their heels to show there was no excuse yet.

"It's not ideal having two huge series or tournaments together, it's like having two Olympics in the same winter. But we can't make that as an excuse. "We have to beat the West Indies. It's not all over for us and if we can win four games on the trot we can win the World Cup."