T20 champs England accorded warm welcome at home

LONDON: England after winning the ICC World Twenty20 title
received warm welcome on returning home here on Tuesday.

England
captain Paul Collingwood believes his side's ICC World Twenty20 triumph
is just as significant as their Ashes win over Australia last year.


Collingwood led England to their first ever success in a global
tournament as his team defeated Australia by seven wickets in the World
Twenty20 final on Sunday.

And the Durham batsman is convinced
England's victory over their old rivals in Barbados is the equal of
last year's Ashes victory as it has lifted a major weight off his
players' shoulders.

Collingwood insists beating the Australia
team again was a massive boost to England's confidence ahead of the
Ashes tour later this year.

"Of course it's different to
Ashes. But in the last five years we've done well against them
(Australia)," he said.

"It's a different form of the game to the
Ashes - it only takes three hours and the tournament only went for a
couple of weeks - but there's still all that preparation work you've got
to do.

Kevin Pietersen playing major role in England
victory in the final said that intensive training in Bangladesh revived
his form in the World T20.