Exeter score last-minute try to stun champions Leicester on opening day

Leicester players are downcast after conceding a late try against Exeter (Simon Galloway/PA)

Exeter prop Patrick Schickerling scored a last-minute try to send reigning champions Leicester to an opening-day defeat in the Gallagher Premiership.

In a hugely competitive tussle a draw would have been a fair result but Schickerling’s winner rewarded a strong last 20 minutes from Exeter, who picked up a morale-boosting 24-20 victory after last season’s disappointing seventh-placed finish.