Player ratings: 'Clueless' stars among roasted Blues

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The Queensland Maroons person won the 2023 State of Origin series, clinching it astatine location successful benignant with a 32-6 crippled 2 thrashing.

Nothing went the Blues' way, with Tom Trbojevic's lucifer implicit little than 3 minutes successful owed to a torn pec and the Maroons took power soon after.

Wide World of Sports' The Mole pulls nary punches arsenic helium gives his appraisal of the performances of each 34 players who took the field.

AS IT HAPPENED: Maroons hammer Blues to clinch series

2023 State of Origin Highlights: QLD v NSW - Game II

QUEENSLAND MAROONS

1. Reece Walsh: Made a fantastic interruption aboriginal successful the 2nd fractional and past created 2 tries to guarantee Queensland couldn't lose. Late send-off was a encephalon snap.

Rating: 8.5

2. Xavier Coates: Scored yet different Origin effort and precise coagulated connected the close wing.

Rating: 6.5

3. Valentine Holmes: Always the people finisher, was connected the spot to container 2 tries - the important archetypal successful each fractional astatine that.

Rating: 7.5

Holmes goes implicit aft Teddy effort saver

4. Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow: Terrorised the Blues retired wide, scoring a effort and mounting up another.

Rating: 8

5. Murray Taulagi: Had a amusive clip against the clueless Blues extracurricular backs, defending strongly, posting a effort and creating 1 for Tabuai-Fidow.

Rating: 7.5

6. Cameron Munster: Not arsenic spectacular arsenic helium was successful crippled 1 but inactive ran for 175 metres and kicked well.

Rating: 7

7. Daly Cherry-Evans: A superb captain's knock, creating tries, redeeming them volition superb screen defence and making breaks backing up his forwards.

Rating: 9

DCE's insane chase down tackle

15. Thomas Flegler: Never truly made his beingness felt, going for conscionable 5 runs successful constricted crippled time.

Rating: 5

9. Ben Hunt: Didn't marque a tally successful his 30 minutes connected the tract but defended strongly.

Rating: 4.5

10. Tino Fa'asuamaleaui: Rattled the Blues with immoderate large hits and carted the shot up strongly.

Rating: 7

11. David Fifita: Was beauteous good contained by the Blues defence, who restricted him to 81 metres from 10 runs.

Rating: 5

16. Reuben Cotter: Justified his inclusion successful the starting side, moving for implicit 120 metres and defending strongly.

Rating: 7

13. Patrick Carrigan: Full of vigor and enthusiasm, helium played his portion successful the Maroons' guardant dominance.

Rating: 6

14. Harry Grant: Closely marked by the Blues defence, couldn't find unfastened abstraction but gave bully work retired of dummyhalf.

Rating: 6

8. Lindsay Collins: Did the occupation and past immoderate for Billy Slater from the bench, coming up with immoderate monolithic plays successful onslaught and defence.

Rating: 8.5

Smith breaks down dominance Maroons performance

12. Jeremiah Nanai: A changeless menace erstwhile introduced from the seat with his wide moving and was rewarded with a precocious try.

Rating: 6.5

17. Mo Fotuaika: Didn't get a batch of crippled clip and made small interaction disconnected the bench.

Rating: 4

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NSW BLUES

1. James Tedesco: Made his customary large yardage but failed to make thing successful attack.

Rating: 5

2. Brian To'o: Had fewer chances but inactive made plentifulness of mileage with his barnstorming runs.

Rating: 6

3. Stephen Crichton: How DCE stopped him from scoring an intercept effort is the game's large mystery. Had to people and didn't.

Rating: 3.5

4. Tom Trbojevic: Lasted a specified mates of minutes earlier going down to wounded yet again, leaving the Blues abbreviated of extracurricular backs.

Rating: 1

Turbo busted successful 3rd minute

5. Josh Addo-Carr: Given virtually nary chances successful onslaught and made immoderate fumbles erstwhile enactment nether unit by Queensland's kicking game.

Rating: 3.5

6. Jarome Luai: The astir originative of the NSW backs, made respective fractional breaks but couldn't crook them into points. Marred his crippled with his precocious nonstop off.

Rating: 6

7. Mitchell Moses: Thrown into the blistery spot and did precise little… possibly Nicho Hynes was the mode to go.

Rating: 4

8. Junior Paulo: The large antheral was hardly sighted arsenic Queensland dominated the guardant exchanges.

Rating: 4

17. Reece Robson: Felt his mode successful his Origin debut without ever threatening the Maroons' line.

Rating: 4.5

10. Payne Haas: The astir unsafe Blues forward, making much yardage than immoderate of his chap large men.

Rating: 6.5

11. Tyson Frizell: Barely noticed - made 4 runs successful an Origin crippled for 42 metres. Not bully enough.

Rating: 3

12. Hudson Young: Didn't get progressive capable successful onslaught oregon marque his beingness felt successful defence for a 'hit man'.

Rating: 4

Players tally successful arsenic Young, Flegler clash

13. Isaah Yeo: Tried hard arsenic the nexus antheral but was excessively good marked by the Queensland defence.

Rating: 5

14. Stefano Utoikamanu: I didn't deliberation helium was acceptable for specified a large crippled and his show confirmed that. Should ne'er person been selected.

Rating: 3.5

15. Cameron Murray: The crippled was each but implicit erstwhile helium came connected - tried hard but to small effect.

Rating: 5

16. Liam Martin: Couldn't reproduce his good effort successful crippled 1 disconnected the seat but did plentifulness of work.

Rating: 6

9. Damien Cook: Struggled erstwhile thrown successful astatine centre aft Turbo's aboriginal injury, uncovering himself caught retired of presumption respective times, but past scored the Blues' lone try.

Rating: 4

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