By Paul Collingwood England all-rounder

The English summer is firmly under way now and I have to say the team were pretty happy with how the first Test against the West Indies went.

We batted exceptionally well and the energy we showed was very good.

Everything we spoke about came together and to have five centurions in a match and a bowler get a six-for made it a very, very solid start, even if it was disappointing to lose the last day to rain.

My goal in the next few Test is obviously simple; to keep scoring

And all of that came on the back of the massive loss of Matthew Hoggard to a thigh injury in the first innings.

That was felt especially hard as we went into the match with three seamers, myself and Monty Panesar as the bowling line-up.

Our unit is reliant on Hoggy's accuracy, his consistency in building pressure and his swing, but we held it together well and who knows what might have happened had we had another day's play.

On a personal note, it was obviously pleasing to get a hundred.

In the last few years of Test cricket I've been lucky enough to start series well - I got a century in Nagpur against India, a hundred against Pakistan at Lord's and a 96 against Australia in the Ashes in Brisbane.

The goal in the next few Test is simple: to keep being positive, to maintain the intensity and to keep being aggressive and scoring lots of runs.

If I can do that, and if the team keep preparing and executing in the right way, we should win the series.

But it certainly will not be easy against a West Indies side who have proved they are no pushovers.

Peter has a particular way of getting things across, using just the right language to convery that cricket is not necessarily rocket science Collingwood on coach Moores

There were suggestions going into the Test that they were undercooked, but if you look at England's performances in warm-up games in recent years, we all know it's different when Tests come around.

The Windies fought very hard, stuck together well as a team and they bat all the way down, as they showed.

It probably set things up nicely for what is going to be a hard-fought series, but if we put all our hard work into our preparation and training, the results on the field should look after themselves.

And that is something our new Peter Moores will be looking for us to do I'm sure.

His is a totally different style to Duncan Fletcher and, even though it is still early days, what I've seen so far has been absolutely fantastic.

Peter has a particular way of getting things across, using just the right language to convery that cricket is not necessarily rocket science, it's about doing the basics very well.

Peter Moores and Michael Vaughan are very similar - they are both great communicators, enthusiastic and very ambitious

He and captain Michael Vaughan are very similar in many respects, in that they are both great communicators, very enthusiastic and very ambitious.

Andrew Strauss did a fantastic job while in charge during the last Test but it looks like Michael is fit to return now and I'm sure his working relationship with Peter will bed in during the matches to come.

It will be fantastic to go into the next Test at Headingley with Michael back in contention.

I also want to have a word about Ryan Sidebottom, who has been brought back into the squad because of Matthew Hoggard's injury.

Ryan's statistics and the way he has been bowling in recent years suggests he is in a similar mould to Hoggy as you know what you're getting from him, he's consistent and knows his game very well.

I'm sure he'll do well if he is given the chance at Headingley.