Queensland’s fighting chance as four face ban

Queensland tied the State of Origin series level today with an emphatic 26-6 victory over New South Wales in Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium.

Australia’s biggest sporting event will now go down to the final round in Sydney after two tries from Darius Boyd helped the Maroons to a comfortable win.

Four players were sent to the sin bin during a heated contest in which NSW prop Trent Merrin landed several punches on his opponent Brett Tate.

Queensland full-back Billy Slater was also seen to elbow Mitchell Pearce and all of the offenders will now be sweating over a possible citing before the final round.

NSW won the opening match of the series 14-6 three weeks ago.