New Zealand All Blacks' Kieran Read (L) is tackled by Australian Wallabies' Michael Hooper (7) during their Bledisloe Cup rugby match in Sydney August 8, 2015. REUTERS/David Gray
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - It took Wallabies coach Michael Cheika three matches to get round to it but Australia finally got the back row it had been clamouring for when David Pocock and Michael Hooper started alongside each other in the victory against the All Blacks.
Faced with the selection dilemma of fitting two elite openside flankers into the same side, former players and pundits had harangued Cheika to unleash the pair from the opening whistle of the Rugby Championship rather than pick a preferred number seven and leave the other in reserve.
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