Courageous Collingwood fights on

With a timely century on the third day, Paul Collingwood revived his flagging Test career as well as England’s fortunes in the Test. The crowds, who had booed him earlier in the game, reserved the day’s biggest cheer for his hundred. The Guardian’s Vic Marks leads the praise for Collingwood.

This would be X-rated stuff. Recently, observing Collingwood at the crease has been akin to watching a horror movie, a B movie at that. Look on from behind the sofa if you dare. He pulled Makhaya Ntini for four. Somehow he had mustered 20. We dared to open our eyes. The leading edge pierced the cover field. Then he began playing as if his awful form had been a fleeting nightmare.

In the same paper, Paul Weaver writes that Collingwood looked as stiff as the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz but slowly, as the runs came, he visibly grew in confidence.

Martin Johnson writes in Telegraph that while Collingwood's knock wouldn't earn too many points for style, it was an innings that was all about character.