Scotland: Rachel McLachlan and Evie Wills back from injury to face Australia

Rachel McLachlan and Evie Wills return from injury to start for Scotland against Australia in their final home match of the WXV Series on Saturday.

Sarah Bonar and Hannah Ramsay also come into the starting line-up as interim head coach Dave Butcher makes four changes following the 66-14 defeat by New Zealand.

Butcher believes facing Canada and New Zealand has helped the development of his team despite suffering two heavy defeats.

"Coming out of two really, really hard games, the feeling is that we got stress tested a lot in those games, which has allowed us to accelerate what we need to do a little bit more, rather than playing a game where we're not too sure whether that will work against the world's best," he said.

"If you look at progression from game one to game two, and the pieces that we wanted to get after, we definitely saw some improvements, especially, I thought, in the contact area from game one to game two."

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Montpellier's McLachlan comes into the line-up at openside flanker, with Sale Sharks' Eva Donaldson dropping to the bench for the match at Hive Stadium, Edinburgh, being shown live on BBC Alba and BBC iPlayer (kick-off 16:10 BST).

Glasgow Warriors' Wills starts at outside centre in place of Edinburgh's Rachel Philipps, who misses out through injury.

Edinburgh's Ramsay, who was a replacement against Canada and the Black Ferns, makes her second Scotland start at full-back, with clubmate Chloe Rollie dropping to the bench.

Harlequins lock Bonar, who came off the bench last time out, makes her first appearance in a Scotland starting XV since the 2025 Rugby World Cup quarter-final against England and replaces Trailfinders' injured Emma Wassell.

Bristol Bears hooker Lana Skeldon will become the second-most capped Scotland women's player when making her 90th appearance.

Having made her first start against the Black Ferns, Glasgow's Ceitidh Ainsworth keeps her place at scrum-half.

Edinburgh scrum-half Leia Brebner-Holden is named in the matchday squad for the first time this campaign after overcoming injury.

Hannah Ramsay (Edinburgh), Rhona Lloyd (Sale Sharks), Evie Wills (Glasgow Warriors), Meryl Smith (Bristol Bears), Shona Campbell (Sale Sharks); Helen Nelson (Trailfindersn), Ceitidh Ainsworth (Glasgow Warriors); Anne Young (Glasgow Warriors), Lana Skeldon (Bristol Bears), Elliann Clarke (Glasgow Warriors), Holland Bogan (Glasgow Warriors), Sarah Bonar (Harlequins), Rachel Malcolm, capt (Trailfinders), Rachel McLachlan (Montpellier), Evie Gallagher (Bristol Bears).

Replacements: Aicha Sutcliffe (Glasgow Warriors), Leah Bartlett (Sale Sharks), Molly Poolman (Edinburgh), Hollie Cunningham (Bristol Bears), Eva Donaldson (Sale Sharks), Leia Brebner-Holden (Edinburgh), Katie Buchanan (Exeter Chiefs), Chloe Rollie (Edinburgh).