{"id":963885,"date":"2026-11-14T06:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T06:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/963885\/"},"modified":"2026-11-14T06:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T06:36:12","slug":"rugby-league-world-cup-2026-latrell-mitchell-ruled-out-of-final-in-australian-kangaroos-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/963885\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby League World Cup 2026: Latrell Mitchell ruled out of final in Australian Kangaroos blow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kangaroos super sub Latrell Mitchell has been ruled out of the Rugby League World Cup final due to illness, nine.com.au can confirm.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell\u2019s replacement on Australia\u2019s six-man bench for Sunday night\u2019s final against New Zealand at Suncorp Stadium will be confirmed when the 19-man teams are finalised on Saturday at 6.35pm (AEST), 24 hours out from kick-off.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/bffcce72895ed9978a2b6f462b435d4590bb41b0.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Latrell Mitchell.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>According to 9News\u2019 Danny Weidler, James Tedesco is likely to replace Mitchell on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell did not take part in the team\u2019s captain\u2019s run at Suncorp Stadium on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>MORE TO COME<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kangaroos super sub Latrell Mitchell has been ruled out of the Rugby League World Cup final due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":963886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-963885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/963886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}