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Billy Slater will get a chance to play Origin at the MCG for the first time next year. Source: News Corp Australia
RUGBY league’s State of Origin series will return to the MCG next year for the first time since 1997.
The Victorian Government will on Monday announce that they have secured a match in next year’s series to be played at Melbourne’s biggest stadium.
A Jarryd Hayne-inspired NSW has taken a 1-0 lead in the 2014 State of Origin series, with a determined 12-8 victory over Queensland in game one on Wednesday night.
The Herald Sun understands it is game two between Queensland and New South Wales that will be played at the MCG.
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It looms as a first for the likes of Melbourne Storm superstars Cameron Smith, Billy Slater, Cooper Cronk and Ryan Hoffman, who have never played at the famous venue.
It will be the fourth time Origin has been played at the MCG and the first since 1997.
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The first Origin game at the venue in 1994 attracted 87,161 people.
Game two of the 1995 series and the third match in 1997 were also played at the MCG.
Melbourne last hosted a State of Origin game at a sold-out Etihad Stadium in 2012 which was famous for the fallout over a controversial Greg Inglis try.
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