The Kangaroos are ready to ram home their opening-game supremacy in the Ashes with a vastly improved second-Test performance — even without their luckless leader Isaah Yeo.

There was much sympathy in the camp for the skipper, who’d called leading Australia back into Ashes combat after 22 years as the ‘pinnacle’ of his career, only for his big day at Wembley to be knocked out after just seven minutes with a “bad” head knock.

WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Kangaroos devastated for stricken captain.

The collision with England’s Dom Young that forced him out will also mean the four-time NRL premiership hero missing out, sadly, on Saturday’s second Test at Everton and the chance to lead the Kangaroos to a 14th-straight series win after the renewal.

But under the excellent stand-in captaincy of

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