England backs Manu Tuilagi and Toby Flood return to the Leicester Tigers team for tomorrow’s trip to Exeter Chiefs in the Aviva Premiership (6pm).

Fly-half Flood came through half an hour of last weekend’s win over Newcastle Falcons following his recovery from a knee injury, while centre Tuilagi is included for the first time since suffering a hamstring injury in the victory at Worcester at the end of December.

Skipper Geordan Murphy, wing Alesana Tuilagi and back-rower Julian Salvi return after sitting out the cup action in the last fortnight.

Fly-half George Ford, who captained England Under-20s to victory over Scotland last weekend, is named among the replacements.

Tigers: Geordan Murphy (capt); Horacio Agulla, Manu Tuilagi, Anthony Allen, Alesana Tuilagi; Toby Flood, Sam Harrison; Marcos Ayerza, George Chuter, Julian White, Ed Slater, George Skivington, Steve Mafi, Julian Salvi, Thomas Waldrom.

Reps: Rob Hawkins, Boris Stankovich, Logoviii Mulipola, Graham Kitchener, Ben Woods, James Grindal, George Ford, Matt Smith

Exeter Chiefs: Phil Dollman; Gonzalo Camacho, Nic Sestaret, Jason Shoemark, Matt Jess; Ignacio Mieres, Haydn Thomas; Brett Sturgess, Neil Clark, Hoani Tui, Tom Hayes (capt), Aly Muldowney, Tom Johnson, James Scaysbrook, Richard Baxter.

Reps: Chris Whitehead, Ben Moon, Craig Mitchell, James Phillips, Ben White, Kevin Barrett, Gareth Steenson, Bryan Rennie