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Paul Collingwood leaves the field at Centurion after his fifth ODI century guided England to a seven-wicket victory against South Africa
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Paul Collingwood leaves the field at Centurion after his fifth ODI century guided England to a seven-wicket victory against South Africa
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Paul Collingwood celebrates his match-winning hundred
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Paul Collingwood's fifth ODI hundred was an outstanding innings
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Jonathan Trott's calmly-constructed 87 ensured no alarms for England
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Paul Collingwood steered England to victory with an unbeaten 105
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Paul Collingwood and Jonathan Trott's partnership of 162 from 30 overs took England to the verge of victory
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Squads

Andrew Strauss (c) Alastair Cook (vc)
James Anderson Ian Bell
Stuart Broad Paul Collingwood
Steve Davies (wk) Graham Onions
Kevin Pietersen Liam Plunkett
Matt Prior (wk) Adil Rashid
Ryan Sidebottom Graeme Swann
Jonathan Trott Luke Wright

About

South Africa v England Test and one-day series

Series between South Africa and England stretch back to 1888-89, with England dominating the first four encounters. In 134 Tests, England have won 55 to South Africa's 28. The first Test at Centurion gets underway on December 16.

A planned tour by England in 1968-69 was cancelled when the South Africa's apartheid government refused to allow entry to Basil D'Oliveira, a coloured allrounder originally from South Africa who was controversially not included in the original squad. It was the start of more than two decades of sporting isolation for South African cricket.

South Africa are now captained by Graeme Smith, while England's leader is Andrew Strauss who enjoyed a prolific first tour of South Africa in 2004-05 with 656 runs.

Click here to read a brief history of the two teams' performances.

Tour Fixtures Tour Results
2nd ODI: South Africa v England at Centurion - Nov 22
England won by 7 wkts (with 24 balls remaining)
3rd ODI: South Africa v England at Cape Town
Nov 27 (14:30 local, 12:30 GMT)
4th ODI: South Africa v England at Port Elizabeth
Nov 29 (10:00 local, 08:00 GMT)
5th ODI: South Africa v England at Durban
Dec 4 (14:30 local, 12:30 GMT)
SAA Ch XI v England XI at East London
Dec 9-10 (10:30 local, 08:30 GMT)
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