Inglis continues on quest to greatness

Australian skipper Cameron Smith hailed the continued emergence of Greg Inglis as one of rugby league’s modern-day greats after the superstar fullback starred in Australia’s 44-18 win over Samoa.

Inglis led the way with a first half double as Australia raced away to a 28-6 halftime lead at Wollongong on Sunday from which they were never threatened.

The South Sydney star also broke the Samoa line for Cooper Cronk’s opening try in just the second minute, in another memorable representative performance.

Inglis’s 26th and 27th Test tries take him past Bob Fulton on the all-time scoring list for Australia to fourth.

“He is a fantastic player everyone knows that, it is hard to keep coming up with new words to describe him and the type of player that he is,” Smith said.

“He has grown into that role at the back over the three matches, obviously the first one didn’t go the way he wanted it to, with going off at halftime but he was good last week and he was even better today.”

Inglis didn’t come out for the second half in Australia’s 30-12 loss to New Zealand due to illness.

He was also instrumental in last week’s 16-12 win over England in Melbourne, scoring the match-winning try.

“He still has areas of his game he has to work on as a fullback, obviously his strength is his running and his ability to get a ball and just turn nothing into something,” Smith said.

“But he still needs to work on his talk in defence and relaying things to the team and getting people in the right spot

“He is working on that, it is not a natural thing for Greg but again he is a quality player and when you need someone to stand up in the big matches he is always there.”

Darren Lockyer is Australia’s all-time leading tryscorer with 35 Test four-pointers.

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THE KANGAROOS ALL-TIME LEADING TRYSCORERS

35 – Darren Lockyer

33 – Ken Irvine

28 – Reg Gasnier

27 – Greg Inglis

25 – Bob Fulton

23 – Brett Morris

22 – Billy Slater

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