Colly on song

Gordon Muchall applied a sparkling finish to the innings with a 30-ball half-century as 69 came off the last six overs.

Collingwood, a veteran of 197 one-day internationals, averaged 20.6 in this competition last year, with a top score of 32. But he found the Derbyshire bowling very much to his liking.

There was much to like in an attack spearheaded by Sunderland-born Mark Turner, whose first three overs cost 25.

Phil Mustard must have been kicking himself when he stepped back in the seventh over in an attempt to hit Turner over extra cover and missed a straight ball.

As Mark Stoneman had holed out at deep backward square leg in the second over to give ex-Nottinghamshire left-armer Mark Footitt the first of three wickets, there was plenty of chance for the middle order men.

They all tucked in with Scott Borthwick making 43, one short of his one-day best, and Ben Stokes 40 at a run-a-ball.

Derbyshire captain Wayne Madsen even turned to his own rarely-used off spin and in his third over Muchall lofted three successive balls over mid-off for four.

He also drove Footitt over long-on for six and cleared the mid-wicket rope off left-arm spinner David Wainwright as the 38th over yielded 15 runs.

Collingwood had made only six off 12 balls when he drove 21-year-old medium pacer Alex Hughes for a straight six.

Another inexperienced member of the visiting attack was off-spinner Peter Burgoyne, 19, and he had the misfortune to see a reverse sweep from Collingwood go through the wicketkeeper’s legs for four.

Earlier Shivnarine Chanderpaul had let a four through his legs at short fine leg to help Mustard give the innings some early impetus.

It stalled for a while as Collingwood was content to take the score to 109 after 20 overs, but he reached 50 off 59 balls and was probably eyeing the chance of a century when he fell in the 36 overs, lbw when trying to hit a swinging yorker from Footitt to leg.