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Aussie to Make Rugby Debut for Italy
Little-known Australian Luke McLean has been thrown into the "deepest of deep ends" with a shock selection at five-eighth for Italy against Rugby World Cup champions South Africa.
Only eight months ago Queenslander McLean was playing fullback for Perth Spirit in the Australian Rugby Championship but the 20-year-old will Saturday line up for an unlikely Test debut.
Italy's former Springboks coach Nick Mallett has looked to the future by punting on the former Australian under-19 representative for the Azzurri's playmaking role at Newlands in Cape Town.
It promises to be a baptism of fire for McLean, who qualifies through an Italian-born mother and hasn't played flyhalf since high school in Brisbane.
But Italy are on tour without...
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