Scotland put aside a sluggish first-half display to beat minnows Georgia 36-9 in a World Cup warm-up match at Murrayfield on Friday night.

The Scots, who beat Georgia 44-10 in Tbilisi last Saturday, struggled to get any sort of rhythm in the first half and made a plethora of mistakes with ball in hand against their physical opponents.

The home side took a slender 10-9 lead into the break thanks to tries by scrumhalf Ali Price and fullback Blair Kinghorn. Georgia flyhalf Tedo Abzhandadze kept his team in the contest with three penalties.

However, Scotland were much more clinical in the second half. Sam Johnson went over in the 50th minute, before Darcy Graham, George Horne, Pete Horne added three more five-pointers to the scoreline.

Scotland – Tries: Ali Price, Blair Kinghorn, Sam Johnson, Darcy Graham, George Horne, Pete Horne. Conversions: Adam Hastings (2), George Horne.

Georgia – Penalties: Tedo Abzhandadze (3)

Scotland: 15-Blair Kinghorn, 14-Tommy Seymour, 13-Duncan Taylor, 12-Sam Johnson, 11-Darcy Graham, 10-Adam Hastings, 9-Ali Price, 1-Gordon Reid, 2-George Turner, 3-Zander Fagerson, 4-Scott Cummings, 5-Jonny Gray, 6-Ryan Wilson, 7-Jamie Ritchie, -8Blade Thomson.
Subs: 16-Grant Stewart, 17-Allan Dell, 18-Simon Berghan, 19-Ben Toolis, 20-Magnus Bradbury, 21-George Horne, 22-Pete Horne, 23-Chris Harris.

Georgia: 15-Soso Matiashvili, 14-Zurab Dzneladze, 13-Davit Kacharava, 12-Lasha Malaghuradze, 11-Mirian Modebadze, 10-Tedo Abzhandadze, 9-Vasil Lobzhanidze, 1-Mikheil Nariashvili, 2-Shalva Mamukashvili, 3-Beka Gigashvili, 4-Kote Mikautadze, 5-Giorgi Nemsadze, 6-Shalva Sutiashvili, 7-Giorgi Tkhilaishvili, 8-Beka Gorgadze.
Subs: 16-Vano Karkadze, 17-Guram Gogichasvili, 18-Giorgi Melikidze, 19-Lasha Lonidze, 20-Beka Saghinadze, 21-Gela Aprasidze, 22-Tamaz Mtchedlidze, 23-Giorgi Kveseladze.