Capewell was limping around with an ice pack on his leg following the Maroon's 18-14 upset over NSW at Adelaide Oval, but he was confident he would be right to face the Blues at Sydney Olympic Stadium for Origin II on Wednesday.

He came off with less than four minutes remaining after reinjuring it taking a high ball and getting tackled into Queensland's in-goal area late in the game.

It was a problem he took in, with his upper thigh heavily strapped for his Origin debut.

But it didn't stop him from turning the game on its head in the second half as he set up the Maroons' opening try with a wonderful piece of skill - despite playing in the unfamiliar position of centre.

He was a late inclusion after former Canberra Raider Brenko Lee (calf) failed a fitness test before the game.

"My groin was tight. It was tight during the week as well. It just tightened up late in the game," Capewell said.

"I hurt it at the start of the week in training. Towards the end of the game it was getting a bit hard.

"I didn't want to go off because I knew we didn't have any centres on the bench, but it got to the stage there where they scored the last try I couldn't move.

"I couldn't really make up the ground on my centre so I just thought it was better for the team to get off the field and get someone else out there who could run a bit better.

"I'm planning on playing next week."

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Capewell brushed off his Blues opposite number Clint Gutherson before charging down the sideline in the 50^th minute.

He then put in an awkward-looking, centimetre-perfect kick for his fullback AJ Brimson to run onto to score Queensland's opening try and begin the second-half comeback.

It certainly caught Maroons coach Wayne Bennett's eye.

"He hurt his groin [Tuesday]. That was the most awkward kick I've ever seen in my life," Bennett said.

"It was the most beautiful kick. I don't know if he thought he was kicking a horse or what he was kicking, [but] he made a connection with the ball.

"He was outstanding for us. Obviously at the end there where they scored that last try he could hardly move."

Capewell said he used to play in the centres and had grown up mucking around practicing his kicking.

It's something he's never forgotten - although he was relieved he pulled it off.

"It was ugly, but effective. Everyone knows if you go through the line there's always a fullback or a half chasing on the inside," Capewell said.

"The banana kick's always something you practice at training and in all the games you do so it was good to get one on.

"In all the skill games and conditioning games and mucking around at training with your mates before and after training that's the stuff you do as a kid.

"You don't forget it. So it was good that it came off."

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Wednesday: NSW Blues v Queensland Maroons at Sydney Olympic Stadium, 8.10pm.