The Hunt is on as Blues target Ben

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BEN Hunt is about to become the hunted.

New South Wales players are salivating at the prospect of Queensland taking its biggest selection risk of the last decade in a desperate bid to save the State of Origin series.

Coach Mal Meninga is faced with a horror choice of selecting an injured Daly Cherry-Evans or rookie half Hunt as his No. 7 for Wednesday night's must-win clash as the Maroons try to square the series.

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Cherry-Evans failed to train in the team's crucial opposed session on Sunday morning, icing his injured knee after an attempted warm-up was aborted.

The Manly star requires a remarkable recovery to play in Origin II and if he plays, he will do so injured.

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Their other option, Hunt, was an interchange hooker for the Brisbane Broncos just nine months ago and has only played half a season in the No. 7 jersey.

If the Maroons go with Option B, Hunt can expect to come under excruciating pressure in front of 84,000 fans at ANZ Stadium.

Meninga talks to Hunt during a Queensland training session at Sanctuary Cove. Source: News Corp Australia

Maroons officials had hoped Cherry-Evans would contest a vital opposed session against Queensland under-18s at Sanctuary Cove but he sat on the sidelines yet again with his knee heavily iced.

Queensland, who arrived in Sydney last night, only has one more training session before Origin II.

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Hunt, who this time last year Hunt was battling to secure 20 minutes of game time as Brisbane's understudy hooker, ran in Cherry-Evans' place again on Sunday.

It would be a remarkable turnaround for a kid whose own father Geoff even told the youngster to walk away from the Broncos.

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Although Cherry-Evans now looks unlikely to play, Greg Inglis and Billy Slater trained and will definitely play at ANZ Stadium.

Hunt will play on the right side of the field and former Blues star Matthew Johns says Hunt better be ready to be the target of enormous traffic from the Blues.

"They (NSW) will rush at him (Hunt) whenever he's got the ball," Johns said.

"They will take as much of his decision-making time off him as possible.

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"They will verbal him. They will knock him over after he's passed the ball.

"They will send traffic at him. They will test his mettle.

"NSW's whole mission will be to make life as miserable as possible. That's football.

"No doubt Laurie (Daley, coach) will say, 'let's get out there and put him under as much pressure as possible and see if he can handle it'."

Blues players remain doubtful of Daly Cherry-Evans's injury status, despite the star missing training. Source: News Corp Australia

On Sunday, Manly forward Anthony Watmough believed Cherry-Evans would still play.

"He doesn't play many games injured with Manly, they seem to wrap him up in cotton wool, so it'll be interesting to see how he goes," he said.

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"He's a danger in any team. We've seen him dominate games week in and week out, so we're going to have to put pressure on him and all of them.

"If we can stop their big men from going forward, we can go a long way to stopping his running game and getting us on the back foot."

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The NSW camp have said all week they think Cherry-Evans will play.

Pressed on Queensland's injury toll, Watmough said: "They're crying out that they are injured and that, but it's pretty much the same team that played except for Corey Parker, because Cooper didn't really play much the last game.

"They gave us a good run last time. We both have injuries but we'll both be better come Wednesday night."

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