Flintoff will be ready to roll

Paul Collingwood believes Andrew Flintoff will put his off-field problems behind him when England play Kenya in their winner-takes-all clash in St Lucia on Saturday. Flintoff was stripped of the vice-captaincy and dropped for the Canada match after being one of six players and two coaches fined for staying out late drinking after the opening defeat by New Zealand.

Flintoff will return to face Kenya as the teams fight to join Stephen Fleming's side in next week's Super Eights. "Freddie will respond well, the whole team will," Collingwood said. "I faced him in the nets the other day and it was proper gas. It was up there. The intensity was there. I'm sure when he gets on that park he's going to be desperate to do well on Saturday and that can only be good for the team."

Collingwood, who has been tipped to replace Michael Vaughan as captain if he is injured, said England were prepared to be put under pressure by the Kenyans. "From what I've seen, and I've spoken to a couple of Kiwi lads about them, they've got a few dibbly-dobblers, not too express," he said.

"They've got basic cricketing talent. They'll put you under pressure, have ring fields against you, and the Kiwi guys said it was very hard to get the pace on the ball. We have to overcome that in some way."

Kenya, who made the semi-finals in 2003, suffered a 148-run loss to New Zealand on Tuesday and Steve Tikolo, the captain, was confident of turning things around against England. "Our chances are good," he said, "if we do the basic things right."