Paul Collingwood, renowned for his cat-like agility in the field, feels Dhoni's side is India's all-time best fielding unit

England's highest capped one-day cricketer and the only captain to have won a significant limited overs silverware - the 2010 World Twenty20 - Paul Collingwood is mighty impressed with the current Indian side under Mahendra Singh Dhoni, that he feels is perhaps the best fielding unit he has seen emerge from the country.


World class: Suresh Raina fields during the World Cup semi-final
earlier this year. PIC/getty images

Collingwood, who is in India to air his expert views for the host broadcaster of the ongoing India-England series, spoke to MiD DAY ahead of today's Twenty20 international at Eden Gardens, Kolkata.


Paul Collingwood

Excerpts:

Have England truly lived up to the World Twenty20 champions tag?
Definitely, they have. Under Andy Flower (team director) the side has played a very exciting brand of cricket. We deserve to be No 1 in the format, having won eight games on the trot, which is a world record. In terms of Twenty20, regardless of the conditions, we have been a very strong side. We are the World Cup holders, and have many games. So it's the other sides that are chasing us really.