Leicester's Manu Tuilagi has been banned for five weeks for punching the Northampton wing Chris Ashton during last Saturday's Premiership play-off match at Welford Road. The centre admitted the charge.

The suspension rules the England World Cup hopeful out of Leicester's Premiership final against Saracens on 28 May.

He will also miss England Saxons' entire Churchill Cup campaign next month, which would have given him the chance to impress before the squads are named for England's World Cup warm-up Tests in August.

The ban begins on 19 May and expires on 23 June.