Collingwood: England can recover

Paul Collingwood enjoys a light moment during training ahead of the second ODI

England are confident they have the ability to bounce back from their opening match defeat to level the one-day series against India tomorrow.

The tourists have had just two days to recover from their 158-run loss in Rajkot, where they conceded 387 for five - the highest ever total against them in a one-day international.

But former captain Paul Collingwood, in charge last year when England bounced back from losing the opening match in Sri Lanka to win the series 3-2, believes they still have the character and determination to respond impressively.

Collingwood was also part of the side that won the last two games of the 2001/02 series to clinch a 3-3 draw.

"We're very close, and that's the good thing about this side," said the Durham all-rounder.

"We'll definitely bounce back. We took a bit of a battering the other day, but the morale in the side is still very high - and we know what we have to do, because we've been in this situation before.

"Certainly on the 2002 tour over here it was amazing that in some of the games India didn't even give us a sniff, and that's what happened the other day. We didn't get into a situation where you thought we could get on top of India.

"If we get a sniff we have to make sure as a team we take that opportunity and put them under pressure. India are just like every other team - because no team likes pressure - and that's what we found in 2002."

England could name an unchanged line-up despite the recovery of left-arm seamer Ryan Sidebottom from prolonged Achilles problems, with coach Peter Moores believing it is still too soon to recall him.

As England attempt to win a one-day series in India for the first time since 1984/85, Collingwood added: "When you have a defeat like that you can get a knee-jerk reaction and panic and start changing things around.

"History says that if you give people the confidence to go out there and perform that's what we'll do.

"Everyone in that line-up is a proven player, and now we'll back them. We've got the belief in all the players and we hope the players will go out and perform."