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Mal Meninga
Mal Meninga is the only player in rugby league history selected for four Kangaroo Tours, in 1982, 1986, 1990, and 1994, and the only player to captain two of them, playing 46 tests for Australia — 23 of them as captain — across an 86-appearance international career. As Queensland's State of Origin coach starting in 2005, Meninga led the Maroons to an unprecedented eight consecutive series wins between 2006 and 2013, a run of interstate dominance without parallel in the format's history. He later coached Australia's national team from 2016, leading the Kangaroos to World Cup titles in both 2017 and 2021, giving him major representative-level success as a coach that mirrored his playing career's own representative honors decades earlier. His combination of a record four Kangaroo Tours as a player and eight consecutive State of Origin series wins as Queensland's coach has made Meninga one of the most decorated figures in rugby league history in both roles.
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Wally Lewis
Wally Lewis, nicknamed "the King," played 31 State of Origin games for Queensland between 1980 and 1991 and captained the team in 30 of them, winning a record eight Man of the Match awards in the series that Queenslanders still regard as the format's golden era. He also played 33 international tests for Australia between 1981 and 1991 and captained the national team from 1984 to 1989, while collecting three Dally M Representative Player of the Year awards, in 1982, 1984, and 1988, plus the Dally M Five-Eighth of the Year award in 1988. Lewis's standing in Queensland rugby league was formalized after his retirement with a bronze statue erected at Lang Park, and the medal now awarded to the best player in each State of Origin series was renamed the Wally Lewis Medal in his honor. His combination of a record eight State of Origin Man of the Match awards and his sustained national team captaincy through the 1980s has made Lewis one of the most decorated and celebrated figures in Australian rugby league history.
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