By Nick Campton, ABC
Blues' Kotoni Staggs (C) is tackled by Maroons' Briton Nikora (2nd R) and Harry Grant (L).
When New South Wales found themselves in the depths of hell in State of Origin I, they looked to the heavens and asked for deliverance.
But they needn't have. The means of their salvation was within them the whole time, even as the scoreboard mounted and another Queensland ambush seemed to turn Stadium Australia into a cold and bloodless citadel.
In Ethan Strange and James Tedesco, they were gifted a young saviour and an answered prayer, and their efforts in the Blues' astounding 22-20 victory are the stuff of Origin legend.
