Scotland thrashed Italy 52-10 in a Six Nations international at Murrayfield on Saturday. The Scots ran in eight tries as they enjoyed a record rout of Italy, surpassing their 48-7 success in a 2015 World Cup warm-up. Italy ended their involvement in this year's edition with a 32nd successive Six Nations defeat -- a run stretching back to a 2015 win over Scotland in Murrayfield. But on Saturday the Scots had a four-try bonus point by half-time as they went 24-10 up at the break in a match where skipper Stuart Hogg started at fly-half after Finn Russell was concussed in last week's 27-24 loss to Ireland. Dave Cherry and Duhan van der Merwe crossed early on before Darcy Graham and Huw Jones went over after Italy had been reduced to 14 men by Federico Mori's yellow card. Italy's Sebastian Negri and Monty Ioane were also sin-binned in a second half where they didn't manage a point. Cherry and Van der Merwe crossed again with Scott Steele and Sam Johnson also touching down. Scotland finish the tournament away to France next week in a fixture postponed from last month because of a coronavirus outbreak in the French camp. jdg/lp