Kangaroos sweating over Cleary knee injury

The Panthers star, who suffered a knock early in the grand final, will learn the extent of the injury when he has scans this week.

Nathan Cleary is a chance of being ruled out of the Pacific Championships because of a knee injury that will require scans this week.

“At this stage he’s still celebrating, and rightly so. We’ve got ‘Cherry’ [Daly Cherry-Evans], so we can keep Nathan in the squad and have him available for the New Zealand game if needed. We’ll see what happens.” Should Cleary be unavailable for the Samoa game on Saturday week, some at Penrith believe he will miss the Pacific Championships altogether.Meanwhile, rugby league officials defended selecting Josh Addo-Carr in the Kangaroos squad, despite an investigation into his involvement in aFootage emerged of the Canterbury winger punching a man on Saturday on the Central Coast while representing the Sydney All Blacks against the tournament’s eventual winners, Walgett.

Storm enforcer Nelson Asofa-Solomona was stood down for three Tests for New Zealand after being involved in a brawl in Bali. The Kangaroos will be led by James Tedesco, with fullback rivals Reece Walsh and Kalyn Ponga both overlooked completely.

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