Paul Collingwood wants England to get back to playing intense cricket as they look to recover from the shock of losing to Bangladesh with victory over the Tigers in their one-day finale.
Paul Collingwood wants England to get back to playing intense cricket as they look to recover from the shock of losing to Bangladesh with victory over the Tigers in their one-day finale.
The all-rounder was in the England team that went down by five runs to Bangladesh in the second one-day international at Bristol on Saturday.
"We need to get back to the same intensity as we had at the start of the Australia series," said. Collingwood.
He added: "That's when we were putting the opposition under the most pressure and that's when we played our best cricket. It's probably more the mental stuff than the technical and it's something we talked about in the Australia series after going 3-0 up. That was a position we hadn't really been in before against Australia and we really wanted to get a ruthless streak going.
"Ruthlessness is a skill in itself and it's something we need to keep improving on.We did not play to the standards we've set ourselves over the last year or so."
