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The injury to Billy Slater has reopened the World Cup door for Josh Morris, Michael Jennings or Brent Tate to take over at left centre when Greg Inglis moves to fullback for Saturday's semi-final at Wembley.
It looked as though Morris, Jennings and Tate had all played their final game on tour prior to the game against the United States and it was going to be a long two weeks before they returned home.
But Slater's injury means one of them will be in the starting team this week.
The three specialist centres were overlooked for the right centre spot last week but Jarryd Hayne's four try haul more than justified coach Tim Sheens' decision.
Both Hayne and Brett Morris finished with four tries each playing together on the right edge that equalled an Australian Test and World Cup record for the most tries scored by an individual player.
Brett Morris beats a tackle from Michael Garvey of USA on the way to scoring his third try during the Rugby League World Cup Quarter Final match against USA. Source: Getty Images
Brett Morris scored all his tries in the first half while Hayne opened the scoring in the third minute and then scored a hattrick in the second half.
Hayne was an absolute handful almost every time he touched the ball and was also instrumental in the try Cameron Smith scored and another of Brett Morris'.
Hayne said it was the first time he had scored four tries in a match since he was 18 and he said even though fullback is now where he plays most of his football he feels right at home in the centres.
"I'm comfortable out there and the right hand carry and right hand step, it's my preferred side," Hayne said.
Australia's Jarryd Hayne over for a try past US player Joseph Paulo, during the World Cup Rugby League quarterfinal match against USA. Source: AP
He said Sheens' decision to gamble on him didn't come as any great shock.
"No, we'd been talking about it since the start and when I got named he said he hadn't been able to give me a chance and this is my chance to play on the right edge."
Hayne certainly ran with it and the X-factor he gives the Kangaroos just adds another dimension to what is the most dangerous backline at this tournament.
None of their rivals have the firepower to match the Kangaroos out wide and given Australia haven't conceded a single try in their last three games they also have the best defence.
The Kangaroos will take on the winner of the quarter final played overnight between Samoa and Fiji.
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Brett Morris agreed the game against the United States was Australia's best attacking performance of the tournament and eight tries down the right edge showed his combination with Hayne is going to be hard to break.
"I think with the ball it was [our best performance]," Brett Morris said.
"We executed the plays we wanted to. We got some points on the board.
"That was one thing coming into the game we wanted to achieve. Our structures worked.
"We made a couple of errors there and losing Bill didn't help but we found our way in the back end of the second half and fixed it up."
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