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14 January 2008
England romped to a nine-wicket victory with 15 balls to spare with Ian Bell winning the man-of-the-match award for a superb unbeaten 60 off only 46 balls.
England recorded two convincing Twenty20 victories over New Zealand in Auckland and Christchurch before losing 3-1 in the one-day series and Collingwood said: "We all know what happened in New Zealand after the Twenty20s. "That's the first thing I will be saying to the boys - 'don't get carried away with this result'."
He added: "It was an amazing performance, but it means nothing for the one-dayers. We know we've got five tough games against them but hopefully we can keep similar sort of standards and put them under pressure like we did on Friday."
Unlike in Twenty20 cricket, where New Zealand have suffered seven successive defeats, they are rated number three in the world in the 50-over game.
Even without the likely participation of all-rounder Jacob Oram, who was ruled out of yesterday's match with a hamstring strain that could put him out for the whole one-day series, Collingwood believes New Zealand are a formidable side.
But he also believes he is in charge of a developing side, one that was strong enough to rest leading seamer Ryan Sidebottom for the Twenty20 encounter.
"We're improving as a one-day side," he claimed. "Our skills are getting a lot better. We're getting more and more experience of when to use those skills but the work ethic over the past year has been great.
"There's been no question that the boys are just wanting to learn all the time. We're very happy with how we are developing, we just want to get results and obviously that breeds confidence and we want to continue in that vein."
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