State of Origin teams for Game 1 are not quite what people expected due to injuries

Injuries to key players mean the State of Origin teams for Game 1 are not quite what people expected.

Both the Queensland Maroons and New South Wales Blues will have some new players at Suncorp Stadium tonight.

The halves combination for New South Wales has been one of the big question marks with injuries to Adam Reynolds, Mitchell Pearce and Luke Keary.

For Queensland, they are trying to deal with the NRL retirements of Billy Slater, Greg Inglis and Valentine Holmes alongside the representative retirements Cameron Smith and Cooper Cronk.

This is the starting team for the New South Wales Blues  -

James Tedesco, Josh Addo‑Carr, Latrell Mitchell, Josh Morris, Nick Cotric, Cody Walker, Nathan Cleary, David Klemmer, Damien Cook, Paul Vaughan, Boyd Cordner, Tyson Frizell, Jake Trbojevic.

The starting team for the Queensland Maroons includes Kalyn Ponga, Corey Oates, Will Chambers, Michael Morgan, Dane Gagai, Cameron Munster, Daly Cherry‑Evans, Jai Arrow, Ben Hunt, Josh Papalii, Felise Kaufusi, Matt Gillett, Josh McGuire.

State of Origin Game 1 is at 10 tonight.