Queensland coach Mal Meninga has confirmed Greg Inglis will play Wednesday night’s State of Origin opener in Sydney after the recovering centre emerged from quarantine on Sunday.

It has been revealed Inglis spent at last two nights in a Gold Coast hospital as he battled what is believed to be tonsillitis and had been quarantined from the Maroons team at their camp all week.

However, Meninga has sent standby centre Dane Gagai back to NRL club Newcastle after Inglis joined his teammates at training on Sunday, albeit watching from the sidelines.

Fellow star centre Justin Hodges has also been cleared, returning to training on Sunday after being sidelined all week with a foot wound suffered in a bike crash at the Maroons’ Gold Coast camp.