Peter Wright and John Henderson proved that they are class above their opponents Lok Yin Lee and Ho Tung Ching, who were making their debuts.

Despite a promising start, the Hong Kong duo failed to capitalise as a brace of 14-dart legs helped Scotland win the last four legs without any reply.

"They were very dangerous opponents," said Henderson after the win.

"We didn’t know what to expect, but I believe Peter’s experience got us through there.

"I don’t see why we cannot win it again.

"I’m playing with one of the best players in the world, if not the best!

"We play with pride, we’re representing our country and we are here to win it."

England also starred with another 5-1 demolishing of the Czech Republic.

Michael Smith and James Wade averaged almost 99 to get the better of the Czech duo of Adam Gawlas and Karel Sedlacek.

After Wade won the first leg with a 12-darter, Smith fired in three of England’s four 180s, as the duo sealed the last three legs.

Smith and Wade is set to face Latvia in the last-16 after Madars Razma and Nauris Gleglu also won 5-1 against Hungary.

Australia’s Simon Whitlock and Damon Heta beat Lithuania 5-2 while Jose De Sousa starred in Portugal’s 5-3 win over Italian newcomers Guiseppe Di Rocco & Gabriel Rollo.

The last match of the day saw Dimitri Van den Bergh and Kim Huybrechts of Belgium cruise past Japan’s Tomoya Goto & Toru Suzuki 5-2.

Earlier, Krzysztof Ratajski and Sebastian Bialecki of Poland edged American debutants Danny Baggish and Jules van Dongen 5-4 in what was the most dramatic match of the day.