Manu Tuilagi and Chris Ashton clash at the Premiership semi-final

Leicester centre Manu Tuilagi has been cited after punching Chris Ashton in Saturday’a Aviva Premiership semi-final against Northampton.

Tuilagi will appear in London on Wednesday 18 May at 5pm, before a panel of Jeff Blackett, Philip Evans and Jeremy Summers, at the Offices of the Judge Advocate General, Royal Courts of Justice following a report by the independent citing officer Alan Mansell.