Scotland vs England LIVE: Six Nations rugby score and result from Calcutta Cup today
Follow live reaction as England and Scotland kicked off their Six Nations campaigns in the Calcutta Cup at Murrayfield
Finn Russell slotted a penalty eight minutes from time to earn Scotland a narrow 20-17 win over England on Saturday as they took advantage of a penalty try and a yellow card for the visitors to wrestle back control of an intense Six Nations game.
Scotland, 10-6 up at halftime, were 10-17 down when they were awarded a penalty try after England hooker Luke Cowan-Dickie batted away a high cross-field pass. He was sent to the sin bin for 10 minutes. It proved the turning-point as with the one-man advantage, Scotland won a late penalty to snatch victory and take the Calcutta Cup for a second successive year.
Ben White scored Scotland’s other try while all England’s points came from young fly-half Marcus Smith, who crossed for a try and was unlucky to end on the losing side.
Follow all the latest reaction in the live blog below:
Ireland 29-0 Wales, 64 minutes
Now Johnny Sexton takes leave, with Joey Carbery on for the Ireland captain.
And that’s a good start - a clipped kick of perfect weight, like an eight-iron for the green set to land within a metre of the touchline. Josh Adams slides to try and gather it but his momentum carries the centre into touch. Ireland will have the lineout throw.
Ireland 29-0 Wales, 63 minutes
The benches continue to empty with Dan Sheehan and James Hume on for their first Six Nations appearances in Irish green. That’s an international debut for the impressive centre Hume, who has stood out at Ulster this year.
Josh Adams is back with us and reintroduces himself rather unpleasantly to the ribs of Caelan Doris, forcing the ball free, but a Wales carrier is isolated and Ireland win a turnover penalty.
TRY! IRELAND 29-0 Wales (Garry Ringrose try, 60 minutes)
And just like that...
Ireland almost immediately rip the ball free from Welsh hands after the next lineout, and there are great open expanses for the outside backs as they shift it to the right.
Andrew Conway is screaming for a pass as he eyes a hat-trick but Garry Ringrose does not need his wing, scorching his own trail on the outside of desperate Welsh defenders who can’t cling on, grasping hands falling off his pumping thighs as the outside centre torrefies the damp Dublin turf and slides over.
Johnny Sexton’s conversion is ugly, but Ireland have that bonus point score and are beginning to charge.
Ireland 24-0 Wales, 58 minutes
A scrum penalty will allow Ireland to return to the left corner as they draw their spears and prepare to hunt a bonus point try...
Not this time! Caelan Doris is over-excited and squeezes past James Ryan before the lifted lineout player can come to floor and form the maul. He is penalised, and Wales survive - for now.
Ireland 24-0 Wales, 57 minutes
There are Welsh hands on heads as Liam Williams drops the ball at the end of another reasonably toothless amble in attack, still a player short of their opponents. About two minutes left on Josh Adams’ yellow card, by the way.
Gareth Davies replaces Tomos Williams at scrum-half.
Ireland 24-0 Wales, 56 minutes
And that’s another disappointing moment for Dewi Lake in his opening international skirmishes, asked to throw a tough dart to the back of a lineout. It wobbles on the wind and into Irish hands.
Ireland 24-0 Wales, 55 minutes
Dewi Lake has plenty of mass and Wales try to use him down the five-metre channel at the front of the lineout, but Jamison Gibson-Park stands strong to the challenge of the considerably bigger man, stalling him to allow an Irishman of greater heft to T-bone him into touch.
Ireland 24-0 Wales, 53 minutes
Changes from both sides, with Finlay Bealham (for Tadhg Furlong) and Peter O’Mahony (for Jack Conan) into the game for Ireland. Dewi Lake gets a debut at hooker for Wales, relieving Ryan Elias, and it looks like Gareth Thomas is amongst things alongside him in the front row, which means Wyn Jones is off.
In fact, it’s a whole new front row for Wales: Tomas Francis has also trundled off, replaced by Dillon Lewis. Welcome, too, to Ross Moriarty - Ellis Jenkins is the last of the leavers.
Can the bench get Wales back in it?
TRY! IRELAND 24-0 Wales (Andrew Conway try, 51 minutes)
This time Andrew Conway strolls in! It’s beautifully intricate play from Ireland to set it up, swift hands out to Conway on the right who carries hard.
Tadhg Beirne fixes the defence with his eyes and pops the ball on for back five colleague Josh van der Flier, who produces a trademark burst against the centre. Ireland then bash against locked doors for four phases but that narrows the Welsh defence, and a simple catch-and-pass drill affords Conway the simplest of scores in the right corner.
Johnny Sexton again rides the wind superbly from the tee.
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