Premiership: Bath 17-15 Northampton Saints

Bath won their first home match of the season as they came from behind to beat Northampton.

Cobus Reinach's try put Saints ahead before Freddie Burns levelled the scores with an interception try.

Bath went ahead after the break through Burns' boot before Joe Cokanasiga added a second try for the home side.

Tom Collins scored late on for Saints but stand-off Dan Biggar hit the post with the conversion, as Northampton had to settle for a losing bonus point.

On the negative side, Bath lost Welsh centre Aled Brew early on with a suspected broken wrist.

Bath are already without his fellow Welsh international Jamie Roberts, England's Jonathan Joseph and Max Clark (hamstring) , while England flanker Sam Underhill was another concern, after being taken off with an injury in the shoulder-neck area.

Saints opened the scoring when Reinach chipped the ball and successfully chased his own kick to score under the posts, Biggar adding the conversion.

But Burns intercepted Reinach's pass from inside his own 22, as he ran the length of the pitch to level the score.

Burns kicked a penalty to put the home side in front and soon after, Cokanasiga, who was called up to the England training squad on Thursday, scored a try in the corner to put Bath further ahead.

Northampton came close to snatching a draw in the final minutes when Collins scored in the left corner but Wales' fly-half Biggar's conversion hit the post.

Bath director of rugby Todd Blackadder:

"Aled's possibly a broken wrist. He'll have to have an X-ray but it doesn't look good. We'll look to make sure we have enough numbers but young Max Wright had a good first game when he came on.

"It was a really tough game - you want to be the team that wins in conditions like that out there.

"I really felt at half-time that while we did not have a lot of territory, we were quite physically dominant. But a little lack of control and poor discipline let them back into it.

"We definitely had an edge in the scrums and in the second half our line-out went a lot better. Our line speed was good too... but there were little moments when we should have been more alive."

Northampton director of rugby Chris Boyd:

"Our line-out has been operating particularly well, but it didn't today. That didn't allow us to build enough pressure. We still had plenty of chances to win that game.

"We talked at half-time about having played just a little too much rugby but the boys said the ball was particularly slippery so we felt we might get a better return by finding space behind their players.

"But it wasn't until Dan Biggar put the cross-kick up for Harry Mallinder that we were in a position to contest the ball aerially.

"Their try just before half-time was a disappointment but none of the tries today were particularly clinically constructed."

Bath: Atkins; Rokoduguni, Brew; Willison, Cokanasiga; Burns, Green; Catt, Dunn, Thomas, Attwood, Charteris (capt), Ellis, Underhill, Faletau.

Replacements: Walker, van Rooyen, Perenise, Stooke, Mercer, Cook, Priestland, Wright.

Northampton: Tuala; Naiyaravoro, Symons, Francis, Collins; Biggar, Reinach; Waller (co-capt), Hartley (co-capt), Franks, Ribbans, Lawes, Gibson, Ludlam, Harrison.

Replacements: Haywood, Van Wyk, Painter, Ratuniyarawa, Eadie, Mitchell, Kellaway, Mallinder.

Referee: Karl Dickson.