Having previously boasted respective strike-rates of one in every two and three Tests, respectively, Tommy Seymour and Stuart Hogg have both touched down beyond the opposition line just once in their last seven Test appearances and the common denominator seems to be their new Glasgow Warriors team-mate Huw Jones' voracious appetite for tries.

Not since dual code British & Irish Lion Alan Tait, has a Scottish centre shown such a nose for the line and since Jones invariably gets his hands on the ball before the men in the back three he has taken full advantage in reaching double figures in just 14 Tests as opposed to Hogg’s 17 in 57 and Seymour’s 16 in 41.

“I am getting a little bit of grief from the boys, but it’s all good natured,” laughed Jones, before noting that the threat Scotland now carry out wide has contributed to creating space for him.

“Playing with those guys allows me the opportunities and it’s always going to be one of us crossing the line.

“Sean [Maitland] scored against England, too. With the back line we have and the rugby we play, someone is going to be scoring. It just happens to be me recently.”

He admitted, however, to having a real taste for tries when the chance arises, following his second brace of tries in two meetings with an England team that has the reputation of having one of the strongest defences in the sport.

“Whenever you score one, you just want to get another one,” said Jones.

“As soon as I managed to sneak that first one, I was on the hunt for another . . . and then maybe another one after that. I almost got one in the second half, too.”

As Herald Sport columnist Max Evans points out in his column today, however, a large part of that is down to the instinct of a natural finisher and Jones did not deny that.

“If you are in the position to be greedy, you can. If there is a better option, you take it but when you get an opportunity, that white-line fever kicks in. If you can make it, you make it,” he said.

However he is very much a team man in terms of his aims as was evident in the pleasure he took in the reaction of senior team-mates.

“You could see before the game how much it meant to the guys who have been around for a while, players like John Barclay and Greig Laidlaw,” he said.

“You could see the motivation they were trying to instil in everyone else. And it paid off.

“To see their faces after the game, how much it meant to them . . . it means the world to all of us, but those guys especially, having been around for a while and had some not so good times in a Scotland shirt, it’s massive.”