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England welcome New Zealand and South Africa during the international summer and Collingwood is confident the Test and one-day internationals against the Proteas will be a good barometer of their standing in world cricket.

"The South Africa series is going to be a real one to watch this year," he told Sky Sports News. "They are a hard team to beat and in many ways it will really gage how far we've come in the last few years and how good we are at the moment."

He added: "The winter was pretty good, we were disappointed with Sri Lanka, the one-day series went well, but we were disappointed with our form in the Test series.

"But we finished off the winter well to get a 2-1 victory in New Zealand when 1-0 down and that showed great character in the side and showed 'bouncebackability' as people say."

Collingwood also claimed England's batsmen have not scored heavy enough of late, and they realise that pressure for places will be great during the summer.

"We started to put it right in the last Test match," Collingwood explained.

"We need to get a few more tons, we've all realised that as a batting unit. Competition for places is always a healthy situation to have.

"People score hundreds they put pressure on you, so when you get the opportunity you need to go out there and score the big runs. Pressure's not a bad thing."