Scotland ease to victory over Fiji at Murrayfield

Darcy Graham notched four times to briefly move joint top of Scotland's all-time try-scoring list, only for his fellow Edinburgh wing Duhan van der Merwe to climb back ahead of him with a late touchdown of his own in a comfortable 57-17 victory over Fiji at Murrayfield.

Glasgow centre Sione Tuipulotu kicked off his captaincy of Gregor Townsend's team, but it was talismanic wing Graham who stole the show in his first Test outing since the World Cup defeat by Ireland in Paris 13 months ago.

The 27-year-old's haul took him from joint third at the start of the match to level with Van der Merwe on the 28-try mark before the South Africa-born back reclaimed his place at the top of the pile with his 72nd-minute score.

Kyle Rowe opened the scoring and Huw Jones added a double as the Scots overcome a wobble either side of half-time to put the Fijians to the sword ahead of their visit from world champions South Africa next Sunday.

Scotland enjoyed a sustained spell of early pressure and it brought a fourth-minute yellow card for scrum-half Frank Lomani who was penalised for a deliberate knock-on as he intercepted Adam Hastings' pass.

The hosts thought they had gone ahead in the eighth minute when Ewan Ashman got himself in off the back of a maul and slammed the ball down over the line but it was ruled out after Pierre Schoeman was deemed to have impeded Ponipate Loganimasi as he tried to tackle the hooker.

The Scots only had to wait a further minute to open the scoring, however, as full-back Rowe finished off a flowing move just left of the posts after being fed by Hastings, who went on to add the extras.

Fiji's chastening start continued as they were temporarily reduced to 13 men in the 13th minute when Apisalome Vota was yellow carded