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THE TRUTH ABOUT: Egos aside as cleary pitted with dce | History Defined

Questions remain over who will be Australia's halfback when the Kangaroos line up against Italy for their final pool game at the Rugby League World Cup.

It is a riddle to which nobody outside Mal Meninga's inner circle knows the answer, after the coach named Daly Cherry-Evans and Nathan Cleary in an Australia Test team listed in alphabetical order.

The decision to deviate from announcing the Kangaroos by position could be interpreted as hesitancy from Meninga in anointing either Cleary or Cherry-Evans his first-choice halfback as the quarter-finals draw closer.

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