Wales duo Louis Rees-Zammit and Taulupe Faletau come through unscathed

Taulupe Faletau played at flanker for Bath in the 16-14 victory over Gloucester in the Gallagher Premiership on 19 February

Wales back-rower Taulupe Faletau secured a man-of-the-match award for Bath with a try-scoring performance against Gloucester in the 16-14 victory.

Faletau and Louis Rees-Zammit came through unscathed a week before Wales play England in the Six Nations.

Fly-half Dan Biggar and prop Tomas Francis will not be involved for Northampton and Exeter on Saturday.

Five Wales players based in England will play for their clubs this weekend.

As well as Faletau and Rees-Zammit, Wasps lock Will Rowlands starts against Leicester on Saturday and Bristol fly-half Callum Sheedy lines up against London Irish on Sunday.

Prop WillGriff John was a Sale replacement against Harlequins after being called into the Wales squad for the injured Dillon Lewis.

Wales have voluntarily released Lloyd Williams and Rhys Carre back to Cardiff Blues and Ryan Elias and Jake Ball to the Scarlets for this weekend's Pro14 matches. Those players will have multiple rounds of testing before leaving and returning to the national squad.

But Wales have to allow English-based players to return to their clubs.

"It's difficult when they go back to England to play, because we lose access to them from a training perspective," said Wales attack coach Stephen Jones.

"The positive with the players mentioned there is it's a Friday game, not a Sunday game. So they'll have more time to recover."

Callum Sheedy (right), who was born in Cardiff, was also eligible to play rugby for England through residency and Ireland through his father

Saints director of rugby Chris Boyd explained why Biggar would get a week off.

"We've had discussions with Dan, he was very busy for us at the back end of last season and then went straight into [internationals]. We have some obligation around giving him some rest," Boyd told BBC Radio Northampton.

Bristol Bears director of rugby Pat Lam says fly-half Sheedy should be "very proud" of his part in Wales' win over Scotland.

Sheedy replaced Biggar after 49 minutes and featured in the second-half comeback and is due to face London Irish on Sunday for Bristol.

"I thought he was superb, he can be very proud and he was a credit to Wales," Lam told BBC Radio Bristol.

"Callum's all about making the guys around him look really good. He could see opportunities and he had the courage to call them.

"He played flat to the line, brought guys into the game and I thought he did really well."