And also for the ill-discipline within their own ranks that allowed Joseph Narruhn to kick the four penalties that kept the tourists in touch at half-time, with a deficit of 18-12.Ten minutes into the second-half the gap was down to a single point. Laney’s wild pass inside from the left wing was snaffled up by Setareki Tawake, the Fijian No 8, who chipped ahead for the lock Apinisa Naevo to score.Then came the close call for the Scots as Norman Ligairi touched down in the left corner, though directly on the line in the in-goal area, which the video referee, Claudio Giacomei, correctly ruled out of bounds.It fell to Laney to settle the Caledonian nerves, atoning for his error first with a 30-metre penalty, and then with a text-book try, looping round Townsend and diving over in the left corner.Craig then clinched his hat-trick in the same spot with seven minutes to play and Stuart Grimes scored a breakaway try in injury time. That pair of tries came either side of Martin Leslie and the Fiji captain Greg Smith being shown yellow cards following a spat, and the try of the match, which was finished in the left corner by Ligairi after a classic Fijian counter-attack during which Waisale Serevi was twice involved.Not that it was the most momentous try of the day. Sharon Brodie, a debutante on the right wing for Scotland’s women and a student from North Berwick, became the the first member of the fairer sex to score a try at Murrayfield – 77 years after Jimmy Nelson claimed the first by a man, in Scotland’s Grand Slam clincher against England in 1925.Scotland 36 Tries: Craig 3, Laney, Grimes Con: Laney Pens: Laney 3Fiji 22 Tries: Naevo, Ligairi Pens: Narruhn 4Half-time: 18-12 Attendance: 37,351SCOTLAND: B Hinshelwood (Worcester); N Walker (Borders), A Craig (Orrell), B Laney (Edinburgh), C Paterson (Edinburgh); G Townsend (Borders), B Redpath (Sale, capt); T Smith (Northampton), G Bulloch (Glasgow), B Duncan (Borders), J White (Glasgow), S Grimes (Newcastle), S Taylor (Edinburgh), B Pountney (Northampton), J Petrie (Glasgow).

Replacements: N Hines (Edinburgh) for White, 25; S Moffat (Glasgow) for Paterson, h-t; M Leslie (Edinburgh) for Petrie, 55; S Scott (Borders) for Bulloch, 69; G Ross (Leeds) for Townsend, 70; G Beveridge (Glasgow) for Redpath, 73.FIJI: A Nariva (Namosi); F Lasagavibau (Northland), E Ruivadra (Dravo), S Bai (Southland); N Ligairi (Southland), J Narruhn (Hino Motors), J Rauluni (Rotherham); I Rasila (Nadroga), G Smith (Waikato, capt), B Cavubati (Wellington), A Naevo (Kaneka), S Raiwalui (Newport), S Koyambaibole (Toyota Shokki), A Mocelutu (Neath), S Naivaluwaqa (Suva). Replacements: V Satala (Harlequins) for Bai, 49; S Leawere (East Coast) for Naevo, 55, W Serevei (Mont de Marsan) for Rauluni, 72; B Gadolo (Suva) for Moceletu, 77.Referee: M Lawrence (South Africa).. Three years ago, the Springboks brought the Boot of God, in the devout form of their drop-goaling outside-half Jannie de Beer, to bear on England and won themselves a place in the World Cup semi-finals. On Saturday, they opted for the Boot of Beelzebub instead – and a few other bits of the old devil, too, including his head, his elbow, his forearm, his fist and his knee – and lost pretty much everything, not least their dignity. Good conquers evil at Twickenham? It sounds a little over the top, but that is about the size of it. Clive Woodward railed against the South African tactics while praising the England captain, Martin Johnson, for his leadership and discipline.

Now, it is true to say that Johnson maintained his composure in the face of serious provocation; he also played a blinder, operating at a level above and beyond anything he had reached in the far narrower victories over New Zealand and Australia. But anyone catching Woodward midway through his eulogy might reasonably have imagined he was talking about Gandhi. The day Johnson embraces passive resistance, the entire world will spin off its axis.Then came an audience with Rudolf Straeuli, the Springbok coach, who is constructed along the same lines as Table Mountain but says rather less. “One of our players [C J Van der Linde] has a dislocated shoulder and two [Bolla Conradie, Andre Pretorius] are concussed,” he muttered, stony-faced “They did not concuss themselves. It was a physical game: we came here as boys, we leave as men. And we will see England in Perth in the World Cup.” Er, um, thanks for that, Rudi. You won’t be forgiving and forgetting, then.Next up was the South African captain, Corne Krige.