{"id":931109,"date":"2026-10-17T05:41:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T05:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/931109\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T05:41:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T05:41:50","slug":"desiree-miller-runs-rampant-to-inspire-wallaroos-to-eight-try-rout-of-scotland-womens-rugby-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/931109\/","title":{"rendered":"Desiree Miller runs rampant to inspire Wallaroos to eight-try rout of Scotland | Women’s rugby union"},"content":{"rendered":"

Desiree Miller created some neat history as the Wallaroos hit top gear in a 56-12 defeat of Scotland in Sydney.<\/p>\n

Shifted to full-back, the speedster scored tries from near-identical plays off scrums as Australia scored 42 consecutive points in a Saturday lunchtime banquet at Accor Stadium.<\/p>\n

With her opening try Miller became the first Wallaroo to have scored 20 Test tries.<\/p>\n

Scrum-half Samantha Wood pulled the strings and kicked well while Randwick winger Amelia Whitaker scored her maiden try and Maya Stewart crossed on return from an Achilles injury.<\/p>\n

The eight tries to two victory, in the Wallaroos\u2019 first Test on home soil since April, followed their 30-10 win over Scotland in Edinburgh<\/a> last month that broke a run of six Test losses.<\/p>\n

The teams will play again in Canberra on Friday.<\/p>\n

Amelia Whitaker runs clear to score a try for the Wallaroos during the WXV global series clash with Scotland. Photograph: Dean Lewins\/EPA<\/p>\n

Scotland scored first when Katie Buchanan latched on to a long ball and cut back inside to create a 5-0 lead.<\/p>\n

But the Wallaroos settled and, after threatening to barge over on multiple occasions, eventually found joy with a try to hooker Brittany Merlo.<\/p>\n

That breakthrough opened up the Scottish defences and the Wallaroos picked it apart with another five tries inside the next 30 minutes of play.<\/p>\n

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Scotland eventually fired a shot through Rachel Malcolm but Whitaker bobbed up again with a sharp intercept and blazing long-range effort to score her second try.<\/p>\n

Eva Karpani, also back from injury, then capped the Wallaroos\u2019 dominant day with a rampaging try, dragging three defenders over the line on the buzzer.<\/p>\n

The match was the first course of a historic quadruple header on Saturday, with Australia\u2019s sevens men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams also set to play before the Wallabies face the All Blacks<\/a> later on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Desiree Miller created some neat history as the Wallaroos hit top gear in a 56-12 defeat of Scotland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":931110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-931109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}