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Scott Bailey and Joel Gould

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Queensland to make seismic cherry evans origin call | History Defined

Maroons coach Billy Slater is understood to have made the big call of dropping Daly-Cherry-Evans. (Dave Hunt/AAP PHOTOS)

Queensland's Daly Cherry-Evans has become the first State of Origin captain dropped mid-series this century, as one of several huge Billy Slater selection calls.

Slater will name a 20-man squad for Origin II on Monday morning, but AAP has been told Tom Dearden will replace Cherry-Evans in the No.7 jersey in Perth next Wednesday.

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