Head coach Vern Cotter has announced his Scotland team to take on Japan in their Rugby World Cup opener in Gloucester on Wednesday. It is very much a full strength team, with any thoughts of rotation surely quashed by Japan’s incredible win over South Africa on Saturday.

Josh Strauss could make his Scotland debut from the bench, having only qualified for the country in the last two weeks. Greig Laidlaw is captain from scrum-half, continuing his Six Nations half-back partnership with Finn Russell.

SCOTLAND TEAM TO PLAY JAPAN

15 Stuart Hogg (Glasgow Warriors) – 33 caps; 9 tries, 1 pen, 48 points

14 Tommy Seymour (Glasgow Warriors) – 18 caps; 7 tries, 45 points
13 Mark Bennett (Glasgow Warriors) – 9 caps; 3 tries, 15 points
12 Matt Scott (Edinburgh Rugby) – 29 caps; 3 tries, 15 points
11 Sean Lamont (Glasgow Warriors) – 97 caps; 14 tries, 70 points

10 Finn Russell (Glasgow Warriors) – 11 caps; 1 try, 2 cons, 9 points
9 Greig Laidlaw CAPTAIN (Gloucester) – 41 caps; 3 tries, 44 cons, 88 pens, 367 points

1 Alasdair Dickinson (Edinburgh Rugby) – 47 caps; 2 tries, 10 points
2 Ross Ford (Edinburgh Rugby) – 90 caps; 2 tries, 10 points
3 Willem Nel (Edinburgh Rugby) – 3 caps
4 Grant Gilchrist (Edinburgh Rugby) – 10 caps; 1 try, 5 points
5 Jonny Gray (Glasgow Warriors) – 15 caps; 1 try, 5 points
6 Ryan Wilson (Glasgow Warriors) – 11 caps
7 John Hardie (unattached) – 2 caps
8 David Denton (Edinburgh Rugby) – 28 caps

REPLACEMENTS
?16 Fraser Brown (Glasgow Warriors) – 10 caps
17 Ryan Grant (Glasgow Warriors) – 23 caps
18 Jon Welsh (Newcastle Falcons) – 7 caps, 1 try, 5 points
19 Richie Gray (Castres) – 46 caps, 2 tries, 10 points
20 Josh Strauss (Glasgow Warriors) – uncapped
21 Henry Pyrgos (Glasgow Warriors) – 16 caps, 4 tries, 20 points
22 Peter Horne (Glasgow Warriors) – 10 caps, 1 try, 1 con, 1 pen, 7 points
23 Sean Maitland (London Irish) – 16 caps, 2 tries, 10 points