Long-awaited return of Manu Tuilagi increases England’s options

The Leicester centre has not played for his country since 2016 but will give Eddie Jones more scope for choice in personnel and tactics in the upcoming autumn internationalsIt is six years since New Zealand lost in Europe. It was not so much a sickness bug that laid them low at Twickenham then but the England centre Manu Tuilagi who went on a one-man rampage in an emphatic 38-21 victory.The Leicester centre was then seen as a mainstay of the England side through to the 2015 World Cup and beyond but injuries have restricted him to six Test starts since that afternoon and he has featured only br…