Paul Collingwood was set to fly from Dhaka to Nagpur on Saturday with much reason for personal satisfaction after an overdue half-century for England.

But the middle-order batsman, who also took three wickets in Friday's World Cup warm-up win over Pakistan in Fatullah, was hugely heartened too by his team's collective efforts.

Reflecting on a 67-run victory, in which Kevin Pietersen top-scored in his new role as opener and Stuart Broad took five wickets for the second successive match since his return from injury, Collingwood said: "I thought it was a top team performance.

"It really was probably the template of how we want to play our one-day Cricket.

"We did a lot of very good things."

After scraping an unimpressive success against Canada two days previously, England needed improvement before they begin their Group B campaign against Holland on Tuesday.

They very definitely got just that, always in control against a Pakistan team who could muster only 206 under lights - despite a hard-working 80 from Younus Khan.

"The way Stuart Broad is taking early wickets puts the opposition under pressure, and the way we bowled in the middle overs and fielded - all that kind of stuff - meant we were creating pressure and always had them behind the eight-ball," added Collingwood.

"We put on a good partnership, Ravi (Bopara) and me - and KP batted well up front, very sensibly, and we kept wickets in hand for the last 10 overs.

"That's what we want to do in one-day cricket, and it worked very well."

Collingwood knows from personal experience, as England's World Twenty20 captain back in 2009, that Holland cannot be taken lightly.

They defeated England in their opening match at Lord's in that tournament, with Collingwood as captain.

He has since led his country to a first International Cricket Council global trophy in the next staging of that same event, in the Caribbean last year, and Collingwood is hoping a gradual reduction in England's injury count is another good sign that they can fare well on the sub-continent.

He appears to be over his back problem; Broad is clearly fighting fit after his abdominal tear, and Tim Bresnan was back in harness yesterday after his calf trouble.

Pietersen and Jonathan Trott both spent time off the field against Pakistan, but their injuries appear only minor.

"The back is feeling fine. I had some injections in in last week," said Collingwood.

"KP got a little bit of a knock on the knee, but will be fine, and Trotty got one on the finger. But he'll be fine as well.

"They're all just precautions really."

England are also due to welcome off-spinner Graeme Swann back into the fold tomorrow, when he flies in from England after attending the birth of his first child Wilfred two days ago.

"He sent us a text message, with the name," Collingwood reported.

"I think we're all looking forward to Swanny coming back into the dressing room, bringing his humour back in.

"I'm delighted for him that everybody's healthy."

There was little surprise either at Swann's unusual choice of forename for his son.

"Not many call them Wilfred," Collingwood agreed.

"But with Swanny, he could have been called anything."