Henderson Hat-Trick Hands It To Scots

Three tries from Scottish centre Andrew Henderson helped Scotland to a ten point (31-21) victory over Ireland at Murrayfield this afternoon.

Henderson scored his second just at the start of the second half to push the Scots 24-6 clear but the Irish rallied and tries from Andrew Trimble and Isaac Boss and a monster penalty from Paddy Wallace left just three points separating the sides with ten minutes to go.

Then however, the Lamont brothers combined to set up a five metre scrum and from that Henderson burst over under the posts

Ireland:  Geordan Murphy;  Brian Carney,  Brian O’Driscoll (capt) (O’Gara 66 min), Gavin Duffy Trimble 26 min), Tommy Bowe;  Paddy Wallace, Isaac Boss Reddan 77 mn); Bryan Young (Hayes 70 min), Jerry Flannery, Simon Best,  Malcolm O’Kelly (Quinlan temp, 58th min)  Paul O’Connell,  Neil Best (K Gleeson 64 min), Stephen Ferris, Jamie Heaslip.

Scotland: Rory Lamont; Sean Lamont, Rob Dewey, Andrew Henderson, Simon Webster, Chris Paterson, Mike Blair, Allan Jacobsen, Euan Murray, Ross Ford; Nathan Hines, Jim Hamilton; Jason White (capt), Allister Hogg, Simon Taylor. Replacements: Fergus Thomson, Craig Smith,  Scott MacLeod,  Kelly Brown,  Chris Cusiter,  Dan Parks,  Hugo Southwell.

Referee: Tony Spreadbury (England)
Touch-judges: Wayne Barnes (England) and Carlo Damasco (Italy)