Most English supporters didn’t want him there.
The selectors brought him back thourhg a lack of creativity.
His family had stopped pronouncing their surname to casual acquaintances.
But none of this bothered Paul Collingwood.
He was determined, steely, ginger and stoic.
There were stages in his innings where he seemed to play every ball to square leg.
And other stages where you could throw a smartie down on the exact place his foot was going to land no matter where the ball pitched.
But did you score a test hundred today, no you didn’t.
His hundred celebration was a deep breath, followed by shaking Tim Ambrose’s hand on two separate occasions, but England are in the match right now, and Collingwood finally has a right to think he had something to do with that.
Before this innings he had failed with the bat, bowled two overs of faeces and then dropped three catches that he would have been expected to take.
The knives were finished sharpening.
The cow had bolted.
Elvis had left the time zone.
But Collingwood defeated all those clichés and then set about giving South Africa a nice little touch up.
Morne Morkel lost the plot completely.
And South Africa started to leak runs all over the place.
Collingwood was so solid he even kept Tim Ambrose in place.
No mean feat.
Also KP made runs.
And Andre made faces.www.cricketwithballs.com
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