Vaughan's still the master, says Collingwood

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England's one-day captain hands the reins back to Michael Vaughan with a job mostly well done during the last three months of limited overs cricket, but adamant that success against India and Sri Lanka will not add pressure to the established Test leader.

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Great appeal: Collingwood has enjoyed success as one-day captain

Collingwood said: 'I'm not after Vaughany's job and he realises that. We've discussed the situation and we're confident that we're both still singing from the same hymn sheet.

'Coach Peter Moores deserves credit for putting team plans and ethics in place and we're both taking those plans on to the field. I'm still learning off Vaughany, there's no doubt about that. He's the master and he has the record to prove it.'

Former coach Duncan Fletcher has cast fresh doubts on whether split-captaincy could work after his experiences with Vaughan and Nasser Hussain, but Collingwood thinks otherwise as England prepare for a demanding three-Test tour to Sri Lanka.

'I've always thought split-captaincy could work,' he said at the launch of Slazenger's 2008 range at Lord's.

'It was very brave of Michael to give up the one-day captaincy because he felt that all his energies had to go into the Tests.

'But we're trying to take both teams to the next level and the key is that we are very good friends who think in similar ways. We're not going to make it into a competition between me and him.'

The 4-3 one-day triumph over India and 3-2 win in Sri Lanka ensured Collingwood could emerge from a poor World Twenty20 tournament with his reputation unscathed.

He now has a key role to play as a middle order Test batsman if Muttiah Muralitharan is to be repelled on the Test tour.

The spinner needs just seven wickets to overtake Shane Warne and become the leading wicket-taker in Test history, yet Collingwood hopes the 'silent assassin' can be overcome so that England can emulate Hussain's team of 2001, which famously won a Test series 2-1 in Sri Lanka.