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England made a useful start to the one-dayers with a win after losing the Test series to South Africa, who had started favourites to take the one-dayers, too. Kevin Pietersen, who has collected two Man-of-the-Match awards in his two matches as captain, is now looking forward to the return of the man he replaced as leader of the one-day side, as Paul Collingwood comes back after his four-match ban for Tuesday's day-nighter at Trent Bridge. Pietersen already has Collingwood's backing: "He's had a fantastic start. He's gone out there wanting the captaincy and already he's making really good decisions. Hopefully he will go from strength to strength, he's learning all the time." Meanwhile, South Africa will be keen to level the series and are hoping - however unlikely - that the Morkel brothers will be fit to return.
SQUADS
England 1 Ian Bell, 2 Matt Prior (wk), 3 Owais Shah, 4 Kevin Pietersen (capt), 5 Andrew Flintoff, 6 Paul Collingwood, 7 Ravi Bopara, 8 Samit Patel, 9 Stuart Broad, 10 James Anderson, 11 Steve Harmison.
South Africa 1 Herschelle Gibbs, 2 Graeme Smith (capt), 3 Jacques Kallis, 4 AB de Villiers, 5 Jean-Paul Duminy, 6 Mark Boucher (wk), 7 Johan Botha, 8 Vernon Philander, 9 Andre Nel, 10 Dale Steyn, 11 Makhaya Ntini.
Umpires: Mark Benson, Simon Taufel
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