Scotland come again, with Darcy Graham darting one way, then another. His pass is intercepted by Len Ikitau but there was still an advantage to the hosts being played and the home fans can breathe again...

The crowd get going for the first time as Scotland surge forward with Darcy Graham taking a quick tap-penalty but the ball is soon lost.

Some fancy stuff from the Scotland line-out and hooker George Turner is off and running down the touchline but the return pass from Jamie Ritchie was miles forward.

A nice Scottish touch from referee Romain Poite as he tells the teams to "keep the heid up" as a scrum is re-set.

Scotland win a penalty from the second attempt and the ball is hoofed up the park.

Here's what Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend had to tell Amazon Prime prior to kick-off: "We've got a lot of senior players, and they'll lead how we want to play today", he said.

"They play a good brand of rugby, not dissimilar to ours. We know that we've got to be alert to them moving the ball at pace, and their pack have shown how strong they are."

Sam Skinner in from the side. Penalty to Australia.

James O'Connor shanks it horribly wide.

An early scare for Scotland as Len Ikitau punctures the home defence with some strong running but his attempted offload is snaffled up by a blue shirt.

Finn Russell then moves Scotland up the park with a well judged kick. Almost perfect. Not quite.

And away we go, with the Murrayfield crowd in good voice.

Andy Burke
BBC Scotland rugby reporter at Murrayfield

This really does have all the ingredients of a fantastic Test match.

Two teams that look to play expansive, attacking rugby, and Scotland and Australia have played out some classics in recent times.

The Wallabies coaches know plenty about Scotland. Their head coach, Dave Rennie, spent three years in charge of Glasgow Warriors, while Matt Taylor was one of Gregor Townsend's most trusted lieutenants with Glasgow and Scotland before moving back to join up with the Wallabies.

Australia arrive here in Edinburgh in fine form. They've won their last five Test matches, including two victories over the world champions South Africa.

When these sides last met here in 2017, Scotland scored 53 points in a record win. This is a very different Wallabies side and you suspect we're in for a very different game.

Australia head coach Dave Rennie has been speaking to Amazon Prime pre-match: "We've improved, but we know there's a lot more in us", he said.

"We know the challenges facing us in Europe, and I know a lot about the Scottish boys. They've got great depth and had a really good Six Nations, so we're wary of that. Scotland have a good pack, they're very patient and can go multi-phase; they've got a back-line that can spark from anywhere. We're well aware of their threats - we're expecting them to kick more than they did last week."

The national anthems have started. Not long to go now...

Today's referee is Romain Poite and this will be the last international match the Frenchman takes charge of.

The former police officer from Toulouse has overseen 72 Tests, placing him third on the all-time list of whistlers.

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It's not all been plain sailing for Australia for this tour though, with full-back Reece Hodge missing through injury and star duo Quade Cooper and Samu Kerevi opting to stay in Japan with their clubs, along with back row Sean McMahon.

We've already mentioned Australia's five-match winning run and the visitors have played a lot of rugby in the second half of this year.

They won a summer series 2-1 against France and had seven matches in the Rugby Championship before edging out Japan last month.

Scotland's only outing since the Six Nations ended in March was last week's tonking of Tonga - and quite a few of Gregor Townsend's big names were not available for that one.

Tom English
BBC Scotland's chief sports writer at Murrayfield

Just looking at Michael Hooper in the warm-up here. Even in the pre-match he has an intensity about him that's unreal. There's a debate to be had about who's the best player in the world right now. Plenty would go for Antoine Dupont. I'd go for Hooper, an absolute machine at openside and one of the great Wallaby leaders.

This is his 117th cap and he seems to be getting better with age. He's still only 30. I recall him doing the captain's press conference when Scotland beat Australia in Sydney in 2017. He was beaten up physically and mentally and could barely speak from the tiredness and the disappointment. He empties himself every single time. We'll be looking at one of the greatest players of all-time today.

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Well, the visiting defence coach may be feeling lots of things since it's sure to be an emotional return for Matt Taylor, who spent five years as Gregor Townsend's assistant at Glasgow and another two years along side him with Scotland.

The Scottish connections don't stop with Dave Rennie and Taylor either... Australia forwards coach Dan McKellar spent time playing here, scrum coach Petrus du Plessis played and coached at Glasgow and director of rugby Scott Johnson did the same job for Scotland as well as filling in as an interim head coach.

I'm not sure we'll be treated to a 12-try repeat this afternoon, but it should be a cracking contest.

"We play similar styles, quicker rugby," said Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend on Friday. "It should lead to a very good game for supporters. Maybe defence coaches will be nervous with both teams looking to play attacking rugby."

So what happened in those 2017 Tests?

After the agony of a last-gasp World Cup quarter-final defeat at Twickenham in 2015 and another one-point loss at Murrayfield the following year, Scotland exerted some revenge - and in some style.

In June they won 24-17 in Sydney, with Hamish Watson scoring the winning try.

Five months later in Edinburgh, the score was a scarcely believable 53-24, with the Scots running in eight tries, all but one coming after Wallabies prop Sekope Kepu was dismissed for a reckless shoulder charge to Watson's head.

Byron McGuigan, a late replacement for Stuart Hogg - injured in the warm-up - scored two on his first Test start.

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Yes, that's right. The home side got the better of Australia twice in 2017 and this is the first meeting since.

Scotland have won four of the last seven Tests, having lost 16 on the spin to the Wallabies between 1982 and 2006.

Scotland have managed three in a row against the Aussies twice before; from 1975-82 and 1958-68.

In a little over 13 months, head coach Dave Rennie has lost six of his 17 Tests with Australia but five of those have come against the mighty New Zealand.

The visitors arrive in Edinburgh in good form, on the back of five successive wins, including back-to-back victories over world champions South Africa.

Australia are now led by the man who took over at Glasgow Warriors when Gregor Townsend left for the Scotland job, so Dave Rennie will be very familiar with most of the home side.

"They’ve grown,” Rennie said of Scotland earlier this week.

“They’ve obviously got a forward pack that can be hugely competitive, very good post-tackle. They’ve got a strong defensive game, probably kicking a little bit more than they were.

“We’ve seen a lot of those players; Finn Russell, Ali Price, Stuart Hogg, they’ve been around for a long while now, so it gives them a lot of strike power and experience.

"We’ve watched all their Six Nations games. I think they had a really strong tournament. They were a late penalty away from beating Ireland and got pipped with 14 men against Wales; beat the rest, so they were very close to winning it."

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