Collingwood to get to grips with form

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The Durham all-rounder has not scored a Test century for 22 innings and started the season with just 39 runs from seven innings in all cricket until he battled back with a scratchy, unbeaten 24 to secure a six-wicket victory in the previous Test at Old Trafford.

But he said: "In professional sport you're trying to get your mind into a place where you're feeling confident and refreshed. I certainly think my time away has put me into a position where I'm feeling confident again."

Collingwood has used his experience of previous difficult times, most notably two winters ago when he went 10 innings without scoring a half-century in a one-day international before returning to hit successive hundreds against New Zealand and Australia in the Commonwealth Bank series which England ended up winning.

On that occasion the catalyst for his change in fortunes was simply a change of the grip on his bat handle to pink, a move he has not ruled out trying again when he walks out for the final Test this week.

"You draw on your knowledge of previous bad patches," added Collingwood. "I look back at some of them and I was a lot lower than I am now.

"People say I've played a lot of games now and that's what you're trying to draw back on, what you did well during that specific time.

"That's what you draw on and I'm sure I've got the strength to come back and score the runs again.

"There have been plenty of other times in my career I've been in bad nick. The last time I came out of a run like this, all I did was change my grip to pink and that was pretty much it - I might even change it this week as well to see what happens."