Cricket: Paul Collingwood is happy to frustrate

PAUL COLLINGWOOD will not change his dogged Test match style after one of the most rewarding innings of his career.

England hold a 1-0 lead and will be out to complete a series victory when the final Test gets under way against South Africa at The Wanderers tomorrow.

Collingwood is one of the men they have principally to thank for that favourable position, after his painstaking 40 in the second innings of the third Test at Cape Town helped Ian Bell and others salvage a draw. But Collingwood was merely repeating what he has done before in strikingly similar circumstances at Cardiff and Centurion last year.

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"Those are the situations I do really, really enjoy," he said.

"I like not upsetting the opposition but just going out there and doing things that are not easy to do.

"I know I must bore people at times. But it's a job I enjoy doing, and I hope there are more of those kind of innings in the future."