Gregor Townsend lauded Darcy Graham for the wing’s stunning four-try performance in the Autumn Nations Series win over Fiji.
Graham briefly held the Scotland try record with wing colleague Duhan van der Merwe before his Edinburgh colleague drew ahead again with a late score of his own.
And Townsend praised the wing’s performance.
“Darcy was outstanding,” he said.
“One of the tries of a little switch play with the nine was evidence of that. His angles of running when he gets the ball and his strength to get out of tackles is up there with the best in the world.
“It just shows his rugby ability to understand what's needed for that defence, but also his intent to get on ball.”
Having the two Edinburgh wingers compete for the try-scoring record is an added bonus for Townsend, who was impressed by both players.
He added: “It's fantastic that we're living this living history.
“You've got two players that have still got a lot of rugby ahead of them that are setting try-scoring records.
“I think Ian Smith from 1925 had held that for so many years, but now we're seeing it broken every game or every other game that those two are playing.
“Darcy's had a really rough time over the last couple of years in various areas.”
Graham's tries capped a stunning return to the national set-up for the first time since the World Cup for the winger, who has been ravaged by injuries over the past 12 months. But despite Graham’s injury problems, Townsend insisted he was always confident the Hawick man would return to his world-class best.
The Scotland coach said: "We were always confident he'd get there.
“I thought in the last game he played for Edinburgh against Cardiff that was close to his best form.
“Not playing last week allowed him to have a really good week of training, being fresh, and today was another level up, which was very pleasing.”
While there were plenty of positives from the eight-try win, Townsend acknowledged his side have problems to sort ahead of the world champions South Africa visiting Murrayfield next Sunday.
Fiji got on top in the second quarter and were the dominant force in the opening stages of the second half before Scotland pulled clear.
Townsend said: “I think that was just Fiji doing really well with their possession, and that's not doing so well.
“I think that's what happens if you give opposition chances to get in your 22 regularly. Obviously, our penalty count was part of that reason, and they deserved the tries.
“I thought the little line of play was very well executed. Yes, we want to fix that, and we want to improve that. The pleasing thing was the response.
“We were put under pressure, and the last 20 to 30 minutes was more like the first 20. It was a different type of game. There was fatigue on the field, and our players showed their fitness.
“But we got tested in that middle period, and we came through.”
He admitted to some frustration at Scotland’s ill-discipline, which was part of the reason the visitors got on top.
He added: “Sometimes the opposition puts you under pressure and maybe you're the first defender to get caught.
“You want them out of the game, but you certainly want those ones which you can control your own actions by just stepping back at yard.
“I think there was always going to be some errors today.
“There was an eagerness, so we've got to take them out next week because penalties against the top team in the world, which is obviously South Africa, either mean points against or it means you're going to have to defend your own 22, which most teams get something from that.”
Scotland could face the Springboks without Kyle Rowe, who limped off with a hamstring injury, while Darcy Graham is also a doubt having failed a head injury assessment.
On Rowe, Townsend said: “He's obviously upset because he'll be thinking that he might be missing the next few weeks. He's felt his hamstring, so he'll know his own body.
“It's a real shame. I think he's been playing excellently all year, all calendar year.
“He's someone who brings others into the game, so he'll be a miss, that's for sure."
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