Cooper selection a gamble for Wallabies' World Cup belief


  • Rugby
  • Thursday, 13 Aug 2015

Australia's Wallabies head coach Michael Cheika conducts a training session at Stade Jean Moulin in Suresnes, Western Paris November 13, 2014.REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia coach Michael Cheika has insisted there is method in the madness of selecting Quade Cooper as his starting flyhalf at the All Blacks' fortress where the playmaker's career was nearly derailed.

Cheika sprung a surprise on Thursday with six changes to the Wallabies side that inflicted a rare and emphatic defeat of the All Blacks in Sydney last week.

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