Sale 15 London Irish 3: match report Watched by England head coach Stuart Lancaster, this was another good night for Cipriani as his form continues to be more consistent. Diamond pleaded afterwards that Cipriani should be allowed to concentrate on returning his own game to the standard which earned him recognition some five years ago. He explained: "There's a lot of press about Danny at the moment. He is playing well because he is playing for the team. He's maturing and realising that his individual brilliance is only brilliant when he combines with a team ethic and that's where he is at. We don't want to talk about him playing for England yet - just let him play. If the opportunity comes in the Six Nations then brilliant but, if it doesn't, then there is a summer tour to New Zealand. But if continues to play like he is playing and continues to control games then the England coaches will definitely have to have a look at him sometime. Cipriani acknowledged the growing England clamour afterwards by saying that he would "love to get back" when accepting his man-of-the-match award. He also dedicated the win to the Sale pack who had a firm control of this game once they had grabbed the initial lead. Diamond explained that Cipriani had shown good opportunism in opting to kick because he realised that the referee, Tim Wigglesworth, had signalled for a Sale penalty at a maul near to the Irish line. Cipriani continued where he left off last week when he scored 28 points in the win over Oyonnax. The performance had sparked the latest calls for a return to the England squad for the first time since 2008. Since then he has overcome injury and taken himself off to Melbourne in an effort to revive a career which has been never far from the headlines. Cipriani has evidently been helped back to something like his best form thanks to enjoying a more settled base in the North-West rather than constant trips back to London. Lancaster, who arrived well before kick-off, will be judging his form not just on Friday night but in two more Premiership games, at Leicester and Newcastle, before settling on a revised squad for the Six Nations early next month. A match is never dull when Cipriani is about and he endured a typical first 40 minutes full of highs and lows. His kick off was far too hard and the strong wind took the ball out of play beyond the corner flag thus giving Irish a scrum on the halfway line. Irish were immediately penalised at the set-piece, but Cipriani, hoping to use the strong wind, pushed his 50-metre attempt to the left of the posts. And to compound his early kicking error, he then missed a head-on tackle to stop the Irish centr Fergus Mulchrone. However, Sale's coaches believe Cipriani has become more resilient and his play after those early mistakes did become more assured. His long touch-finding kick relieved the early pressure on his team and set up the first home attack of the evening. Irish were troubled in the scrums early on and conceded another penalty which enabled Cipriani to set up another attacking opportunity in the 18th-minute. This time Sale managed to mount a proper drive from the line-out which forced Irish to concede ground and the extra space allowed Cipriani to launch a kick, off his right foot, which bounced kindly into the arms Brady. Cipriani added the conversion and Sale, having enjoyed first use of the wind, led 7-0 with Irish struggling to get out of their own half, because of the increasing force of the wind. It was another kick for the corner off a penalty which set up Sale's second try in the 28th minute. Again the home pack set up a driving maul which rocked the Irish eight backwards leading to Seymour touching down amid a pile of bodies. That put Sale 12-0 ahead and they only needed a penalty by Cipriani to one from Ian Humphreys to keep ahead of an Irish team hit by the second-half sin binning of No 8 Chris Hala'uifa.