England: Too strong for Scotland at Murrayfield

Two Dan Parks penalties handed Scotland a 6-3 half-time lead and put the hosts on course for just a second opening weekend win in 13 attempts in the tournament before he turned villain 24 seconds into the second half.

Charlie Hodgson charged down a Parks kick before applying the scoring touch. Farrell converted and finished with eight points on his debut.

The Saracens centre told BBC Sport: "That's just the start for us. We came out here and worked unbelievably hard for each other, that's what we've worked on the last couple of weeks - getting together and bonding as a team.

"We really want to fight for each other and we showed that out there today. We can still get better and better as the weeks go on."

Scotland flanker David Denton, who claimed the man of the match prize, added: "First of all it's very disappointing to get the loss. It was an incredible game for me to get my first start in the Six Nations but unfortunately we didn't win.

"We made a few small errors in the red zone in attack and defence and we need to work on that next week."