Collingwood's unbeaten 105 led England to a seven-wicket win

Former England captain Alec Stewart has called on England to maintain the standards set in the second one-day international in South Africa.

Paul Collingwood and Jonathan Trott shared a partnership of 162 as England won by seven wickets at Centurion.

Stewart told BBC London 94.9: "They're consistently inconsistent and they've got to shed that.

"But what impressed me, Collingwood and Trott played cricket shots, and they played as proper batsmen."

He added: "They hit strong cricket shots down the ground and then if it was short they hit it square of the wicket.

"They didn't start reverse sweeping and doing all these things unless it was necessary, a lot of the time people get to 15 and 20 and suddenly they reverse sweep, top edge and get caught.

"Why don't you just hit the gaps into extra-cover, until you've built momentum and are constructing an innings?

"The two of them both set their sights on scoring a hundred and being there at the end, Collingwood achieved it and Trott nearly achieved that.

"That's been the biggest thing, if you look around the world at the successful sides, you have batsman who put their hands up and say: 'I will score a hundred, and I will do that through good, solid batting.'

That's why England's one-day form is so frustrating, because when they play like that, as they did on Sunday, they will beat anyone Alec Stewart

"England haven't scored enough hundreds ever in one-day cricket, certainly not in recent times, and hopefully the rest of the team, and the players that will come into the side in the future, will have looked at the Collingwood and Trott partnership and said 'that's how we've got to play.'

"That's why England's one-day form is so frustrating, because when they play like that, as they did on Sunday, they will beat anyone.

"Collingwood led the way, ably supported by Trott. In the field, just forget the captain spilling a few chances, but I thought they were good and the bowing was efficient. They destroyed South Africa, yet we may see a different England in the next two one-day games coming up on Friday and Sunday.

"You just don't know what England side is going to turn up and that's why they're so frustrating, but also when they get it right, whether it's in a series against South Africa or whether it's a world tournament, you can never write them off but you can never also put them as favourites."