Captain Paul Collingwood insisted he saw all the fighting qualities he wants from his developing team in their last-over defeat against India yesterday.

A captivating one-day match containing almost 640 runs was snatched from England's grasp at The Brit Oval by Robin Uthappa, who hit successive fours off Stuart Broad to level the NatWest Series at 3-3.

Collingwood himself was controversially run out in an England innings of 316 for six which featured a maiden century from Owais Shah (107 not out), a blistering half-century on debut from Luke Wright - and five sixes from consecutive deliveries in the last over from Dimitri Mascarenhas off Yuvraj Singh.

A breathless chain of events resumed after the interval, Sachin Tendulkar (94) narrowly missing his first hundred of the summer - before Uthappa (47no) had the last word as India got home with two wickets and two balls to spare.

Collingwood admitted: ''We are very disappointed. There are a lot of very disappointed boys in the dressing room.

''It was a great game of cricket. It is tough to take when you are on the wrong end of a result - but I think we can take a lot of positives out of that.

''We were put under a lot of pressure there, and the way we fought back in the first innings - a young guy like Luke Wright to come in with a swashbuckling 50 to change the momentum - made it a great effort to get up to more than 300."

Collingwood continued: ''When India were batting, for us to fight back - after the start they had - to nearly win that game was a top effort. I cannot fault any of the lads.''