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Captain Paul Collingwood enters his first major series with a squad who will remain largely unchanged - apart for the next eight weeks as they contest a seven-match NatWest one-day series against India, the ICC World Twenty20 tournament and a one-day series in Sri Lanka.

Collingwood said: "Hopefully this two-month period is the perfect time as a one-day side to keep improving and that's what we're looking to do. We realise we have to improve as a one-day side."

It is a schedule which spans three different countries, 12 one-day internationals and a number of Twenty20 internationals which is likely to provide England's selectors with a definitive view on several members of the squad as they build-up to next year's ICC Champions Trophy and the 2011 World Cup in Asia.

But Collingwood believes it is also a golden opportunity for this squad to grow together over the next two months and beyond and finally turn England into a competitive one-day force on the world stage.

He added: "When I took over before the West Indies series I said the approach was going to be one of the major things and when you talk about approach and intent these things get filtered in slowly.

"These aren't things that happen overnight and players can all of a sudden go out there and be world-beaters.

"These skills we are learning every day in practice and they gradually get filtered into the players."