LIVE: 'It's the biggest insult of your Origin career'

When helium runs onto Accor Stadium tonight, Daly Cherry-Evans volition interruption the grounds for the astir consecutive games astatine No.7 for Queensland.

Cherry-Evans volition play his 16th consecutive crippled astatine halfback, eclipsing the grounds held by Alfie Langer for astir 3 decades.

DCE missed the archetypal 2 games of the 2018 series, but hasn't missed 1 since.

"It is nice, it's decidedly not mislaid connected maine the institution I'm in," helium told Peter Psaltis connected 4BC's Wide World of Sports Radio connected Tuesday night.

"I'm truly grateful and arrogant of myself for staying astir that long.

"It's 1 of those things, you don't play for this. I'm playing due to the fact that I emotion the game, I emotion representing my family, I emotion representing the authorities of Queensland, and erstwhile these things popular up on the way, I conjecture I don't cognize what it means precisely but it's different accidental to correspond the authorities and my family. 

"I'm truly fortunate – I'm the luckiest idiosyncratic successful Queensland. I get to beryllium the captain, I get to tally retired first, and adjacent though we're not moving retired to Suncorp … I'm inactive going to instrumentality a batch of pridefulness successful starring retired the Queensland broadside to hopefully bash thing special."

Langer, who works intimately with Cherry-Evans arsenic an adjunct manager for the Maroons, said helium deserved the record.

"To play 16 Origins successful a enactment arsenic a fractional shows Daly is simply a large subordinate and however good helium prepares arsenic well," helium told AAP.

"Daly is simply a fantastic rival who has travel done pugnacious times to get wherever helium is now.

"He was successful and retired of the broadside but kept turning up and playing large footy. He forced his mode backmost in.

"I deliberation his captaincy has been 2nd to none. We person a batch of young guys coming done and Daly has turned into a genuinely large person and skipper for Queensland.

"Once helium puts the Maroons jersey connected helium lifts and brings each the boys with him."