Lethal Leicester beat Gloucester

Runaway leaders Leicester stretched their unbeaten Zurich Premiership record to 12 games as they inflicted a major dent on Gloucester’s play-off ambitions with a 28-13 win sold-out Kingsholm.

But victory was achieved at a cost when Tigers lost their England number eight Martin Corry with a dislocated elbow midway through the first half.

Corry, a star performer during England’s recent autumn Test series, was helped from the field, giving England boss Andy Robinson grave cause for concern less than five weeks before the world champions launch their RBS 6 Nations Championship campaign against Wales in Cardiff.

The Leicester medical staff’s immediate post-match prognosis was that Corry faces six weeks out.

If that prediction proves accurate, then Corry will miss out on Leicester’s final two Heineken Cup group games against Biarritz and Calvisano, and possibly the England versus France showdown at Twickenham on February 13.

There was better news for Robinson elsewhere though, with Gloucester prop Phil Vickery making a successful comeback seven weeks after suffering a ‘blow-out’ eye-socket fracture against Wasps.