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Daly Cherry-Evans
Personal information
Full nameDaly Cherry-Evans
Born (1989-02-20) 20 February 1989 (age 35)
Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia
Height183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight85 kg (13 st 5 lb)
Playing information
PositionHalfback
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2011– Manly Sea Eagles 313 89 180 27 743
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2010
Queensland Residents
 		1 1 2 0 8
2011–23
Australia
 21 5 3 0 26
2013–23
Queensland
 22 2 5 0 18
2018–23 Prime Ministers XIII 3 2 0 0 8
2019 Australia 9s 5 1 2 0 8
Source: [1]
As of 26 April 2024

Daly Cherry-Evans (born 20 February 1989) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a halfback for the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles in the National Rugby League (NRL) and Australia at international level.

He has played his entire first grade career at Manly. He currently captains the team and won the 2011 NRL Grand Final. He captains Queensland at State of Origin level and has played for Prime Ministers XIII.

Early life

Cherry-Evans was born in Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia to an English-born mother[2] and an Australian father. His father, Troy Evans, played as a hooker for the Norths Devils and Redcliffe Dolphins in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership during the 1980s and 1990s.[3] His brother Darcy Cherry-Evans is a professional scooter rider and his brother Dylan Cherry-Evans is also a former rugby league player. He also has two sisters, Kaci and Klanci Cherry-Evans.[citation needed]

He began playing

National Youth Competition team.[5]

Playing career

National Youth Competition (2008–09)

Cherry-Evans in 2008.

Cherry-Evans played 46 games for the National Youth Competition team of

2009 Toyota Cup season
's team of the year.

Sunshine Coast (2010)

At the conclusion of the 2009 Toyota Cup season, Cherry-Evans found himself behind Trent Hodkinson as Manly's first grade halfback after the departure of club captain Matt Orford. As a result, Cherry-Evans was sent to play for Manly's Queensland Cup feeder club the Sunshine Coast Sea Eagles. After captaining the team for most of the season, Cherry-Evans was named the Queensland Cup Player of the Year, and Rookie of the Year. His performances in the side saw him selected to the Queensland Residents team where he was also named team captain.[citation needed]

2011

With Hodkinson moving to play for the

AAMI Park.[7]

Cherry-Evans playing for the Sea Eagles in 2011

In Round 12 against the

2011 Four Nations as he is eligible for England through his English born mother Kellie. Cherry-Evans declined the offer, declaring himself available only to play representative football for both Queensland and Australia should he be selected.[10]

Cherry-Evans won the

Rugby League International Federation in its annual awards
as the world's best halfback for 2011.

Cherry-Evans at the 2012 Dally M Awards

2012

Cherry-Evans played in all 27 Manly Warringah Sea Eagles matches and scored 7 tries, kicked 3 goals and kicked 1 field goal during the 2012 NRL season.[citation needed]

2013

Since he made his debut for Manly in Round 1 of the 2011 NRL season, Cherry-Evans had not missed a single game of the NRL. Due to his selection for Qld in Game III of the 2013 Origin series, DCE missed his first game for the Sea Eagles, missing their Round 18 clash with

Townsville. Cherry-Evans won the Clive Churchill man of the match medal in the Sea Eagles 26–18 Grand Final defeat by the Sydney Roosters.[13] Cherry-Evans is the third player since the award's inception in 1986 to win the Medal from a losing Grand Final side and one of four who have achieved the honour, joining Canberra's Bradley Clyde (1991), St George's Brad Mackay (1993) and Canberra's Jack Wighton (2019).[14] Cherry-Evans played in 27 matches, scored 11 tries and kicked 2 field goals for the Sea Eagles in the 2013 NRL season
.

2014

On 14 February 2014, Cherry-Evans was selected in the Sea Eagles inaugural 2014

Auckland Nines squad.[15] In Round 24 against the Parramatta Eels at Parramatta Stadium, Cherry-Evans played his 100th NRL career match in the Sea Eagles 22–12 loss.[16] On 22 September 2014, Cherry-Evans was selected in the Australian Four Nations train-on squad.[17] On 29 September 2014, at the 2014 Dally M Awards, Cherry-Evans was named 2014 Dally M Halfback of the Year.[18][19]

2015

Cherry-Evans captained the Sea Eagles during the 2015 Auckland Nines competition. His team lost each of its matches throughout the pre-season competition.

On 6 March 2015, Cherry-Evans revealed he had agreed to join the

AUD or $1.25m per season.[24]

2016

In June 2016, Cherry-Evans suffered an ankle injury that kept him out of action for a month.[25] Cherry-Evans had a poor 2016 season with the Sea Eagles finishing off the season in thirteenth place. Although he showed small glimpses of what he could do, he scored 5 tries during the 2016 season and played 19 games.[26]

2017

On 13 January 2017, following the retirement of long time Manly premiership winning captain

2017 NRL Finals Series. At the end of the year he was named Player of the Year by the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles for this great season. At the end of the 2017 season Daly played all 25 games for the sea eagles scoring 6 tries and kicking 9 goals.[29]

2018

On 28 May, Cherry-Evans was not selected to play in Queensland's 2018 State of Origin squad.[30] On 2 July, Cherry-Evans was named to play in the game 3 of the 2018 State of Origin series due to injuries suffered within the Queensland squad.[31]

During the 2018 season, Cherry-Evans played 24 games, scoring 8 tries and kicking 65 goals. Even though Manly finished 15th at the end of the

Mt Smart Stadium.[citation needed
]

2019

In Round 3, Cherry-Evans scored 2 tries and kicked 7 goals as Manly defeated the New Zealand Warriors 46–12. On 27 May, Cherry-Evans was picked to play at Halfback for the Queensland Maroons side and was also picked as the 15th Captain of the Queensland Maroons side. Cherry-Evans played in all 3 games of the 2019 State of Origin series as Queensland lost the series 2–1.[32][33]

In Round 19, Cherry-Evans kicked the winning field goal in golden point extra-time as Manly defeated Melbourne 11–10 at

AAMI Park.[34]

Cherry-Evans made a total of 21 appearances for Manly in the 2019 NRL season as the club finished 6th on the table and qualified for the finals. Cherry-Evans played in both finals matches as Manly reached the elimination semi-final against South Sydney but were defeated 34–26 ending their season.[35][36] On 7 October, Cherry-Evans was named in the Australian side for the Oceania Cup fixtures.

2020

Cherry-Evans made a total of 20 appearances for Manly-Warringah in the 2020 NRL season as the club finished a disappointing 13th on the table.[37]

2021

In round 5 of the 2021 NRL season, Cherry-Evans kicked a field goal for Manly-Warringah in the final seconds of the game to defeat the New Zealand Warriors 13–12. It was Manly's first win of the year having lost the opening four games.[38]

In round 7, Cherry-Evans scored two tries for Manly in a 40–6 victory over the Wests Tigers.[39] In round 19, he scored two tries for Manly in a 44–24 victory over the Wests Tigers.[40] Cherry-Evans played 25 games for Manly in the 2021 NRL season including the club's preliminary final loss against South Sydney.[41]

2022

In round 3 of the 2022 NRL season, Cherry-Evans kicked the winning field goal late in the match to earn Manly their first win of the season over Canterbury with a 13–12 victory.[42]

Cherry-Evans played a total of 22 games for Manly in the 2022 NRL season as the club finished 11th on the table missing the finals.[43]

In October, he was named in the

2021 Rugby League World Cup.[44]

2023

In round 1 of the 2023 NRL season, Cherry-Evans scored his first career hat-trick in Manly's 31–6 victory over Canterbury.[45] Cherry-Evans played all three games for Queensland in the 2023 State of Origin series as Queensland won the shield 2-1. Cherry-Evans played 22 games for Manly in the 2023 NRL season as the club finished 12th on the table and missed the finals.[46]

2024

In round 5 of the 2024 NRL season, Cherry-Evans became Manly's record appearance holder overtaking Cliff Lyons. Manly would win 32-18 in the milestone game.[47]

Cherry-Evans warming down for Australia in 2022
Cherry-Evans warming up for Australia in 2022

Statistics

Season Team Games Tries Goals F/G Points
2011
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles
 27 7 25 3 81
2012 27 7 3 1 35
2013 27 11 0 2 46
2014 23 3 – 4 16
2015 23 5 0 – 20
2016 19 5 – 2 22
2017 25 6 9 4 46
2018 24 8 65 2 164
2019 21 5 21 2 64
2020 20 6 12 1 49
2021 25 9 1 2 40
2022 22 5 15 2 52
2023 22 9 20 1 72
Total 305 85 171 26 708

Last updated: 24 Jun 2023

Honours

Individual

Club

Representative

Controversy

On 21 April 2018, Cherry-Evans was fined $10,000 by Manly after an altercation with fellow Manly player Jackson Hastings. The incident involving Hastings and Cherry-Evans resulted in Hastings being ostracised from the playing group. An altercation on the training field in the lead-up to the side's 32–20 loss to The Gold Coast carried forward when the players attended a Gladstone strip club after the game and then flared up even further at the team hotel later in the night.[48] Hastings left the club due to continued altercations with Cherry-Evans and subsequently played in the Super League and back in the NRL for the Wests Tigers.

In June 2018, former teammate Willie Mason claimed that when he was at Manly that nobody wanted to play alongside Cherry-Evans and that he was the reason there was such a divide at the club. Mason went on to say "I was there in 2015, I've never seen, never been involved in a team, that I could just see such a divide in a club, It was because of Cherry-Evans. All this shit that's been happening around him, like, something's wrong, "He then signed with the Gold Coast Titans for like 10 years", Mason said. "And then there was a big fucking meeting, Cherry-Evans has got something to say. "I just signed a deal with the Titans boys, blah blah blah". "I'm like, who gives a fuck, you don't hold a meeting about that. No one cared".[49]

Mason's comments came in the wake of former Manly player Anthony Watmough commenting on a podcast calling Cherry-Evans a "fuckwit" and that he was the reason other players needed to depart the club.[50]

Representative rugby league career

Allegiance

Although Cherry-Evans was born in

Australia or England at the test level. In 2011, England coach Steve McNamara offered Cherry-Evans a starting spot on the English team for the 2011 Four Nations tournament. Cherry-Evans declined the offer, declaring himself available only to play representative football for both Queensland and Australia should he be selected.[10]

Australia

In October 2011, coach

Wrexham. He was selected for Australia's 2012 Anzac Test against New Zealand but did not take to the field.[51]

Cherry-Evans was selected in the Kangaroos 24 man squad for the 2013 Rugby League World Cup squad, playing in 5 matches and scoring 2 tries. His form in the tournament saw him selected to play from the bench in Australia's 34–2 win over New Zealand in the 2013 Rugby League World Cup final played in front of an international record attendance of 74,468 at the Old Trafford stadium in Manchester.[52]

Cherry-Evans' form in the early part of the

2014 ANZAC Test in the Kangaroos 30–18 win over New Zealand at Sydney Football Stadium.[53]

Queensland

Queensland coach

ANZ Stadium record crowd of 83,813 fans.[54]

Cherry-Evans also remained on Queensland's bench for Game I of the 2014 State of Origin series, in which incumbent halfback Cooper Cronk suffered a fractured arm, rendering him unavailable for Game II. This saw Cherry-Evans move into the starting halfback role for the loss which meant the end of the Maroons' 8-series winning streak. Cronk's recovery in time for Game III saw Cherry-Evans return to the interchange bench.

Game 3, 2018 saw Cherry-Evans return from a three-year absence at origin level. Evans played at halfback in the dead rubber winning 18–12. His great form in the game received widespread praise.[55]

At the start of the 2019 State of Origin series, Cherry-Evans was named as the 15th Captain of the Queensland Maroons.

Cherry-Evans was selected by Queensland once again for the 2020 State of Origin series. Queensland would go on to shock a highly fancied New South Wales side 2–1. Before the series had begun, some NSW media outlets described the 2020 Queensland team as the worst ever Maroons side. At the presentation ceremony following the conclusion of Game 3, Cherry-Evans said "On behalf of the worst ever Queensland team, thank you very much".[56]

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