Scotland team to play Australia: Six changes made, Jack Dempsey in line for debut, broken toe rules out one man
Gregor Townsend has named a Scotland XV to face Australia this Saturday at BT Murrayfield that has six changes from the team that agonisingly lost the Test series decider in Argentina last July.
Scotland Team Announcement
- Pierre Schoeman (Edinburgh Rugby) 12 caps
- Dave Cherry (Edinburgh Rugby) 7 caps
- Zander Fagerson (Glasgow Warriors) 50 caps
- Sam Skinner (Edinburgh Rugby) 22 caps
- Grant Gilchrist – Vice-captain (Edinburgh Rugby) 55 caps
- Jamie Ritchie – Captain (Edinburgh Rugby) 32 caps
- Hamish Watson (Edinburgh Rugby) 51 caps
- Matt Fagerson (Glasgow Warriors) 24 caps
- Ali Price – Vice-captain (Glasgow Warriors) 54 caps
- Blair Kinghorn (Edinburgh Rugby) 34 caps
- Duhan van der Merwe (Edinburgh Rugby) 19 caps
- Sione Tuipulotu (Glasgow Warriors) 7 caps
- Mark Bennett (Edinburgh Rugby) 27 caps
- Darcy Graham (Edinburgh Rugby) 29 caps
- Ollie Smith (Glasgow Warriors) 1 cap
Replacements
- George Turner (Glasgow Warriors) 27 caps
- Jamie Bhatti (Glasgow Warriors) 22 caps
- WP Nel (Edinburgh Rugby) 48 caps
- Glen Young (Edinburgh Rugby) 1 cap
- Jack Dempsey (Glasgow Warriors) uncapped
- George Horne (Glasgow Warriors) 17 caps
- Ross Thompson (Glasgow Warriors) 3 caps
- Damien Hoyland (Edinburgh Rugby) 4 caps
