Sporting Digest: Rugby League

KELVIN SKERRETT, the Wigan prop who fractured his jaw in Sunday's Premiership final, yesterday had an operation and will miss next week's World Club Challenge with the holders, Brisbane Broncos, in Australia.

JOHN DORAHY, sacked by Wigan, has settled his dispute with the club. A joint statement said: 'John Dorahy and Wigan RLFC are happy to announce that their contractual dispute has been settled amicably.'

GREAT BRITAIN ACADEMY UNDER-19 SQUAD (for tour of Australia, 19 June-16 July): P Stevens (Wigan, capt), M Hilton (Warrington, vice capt), S Baldwin (Leigh), P Cantillon (Wigan), P Cook (Leeds), A Craig (Wigan), F Cummins (Leeds), A Flynn (Wakefield), I Harris (Warrington), S Haughton (Wigan), G Holroyd (Leeds), M Knowles (Wigan), S Martin (Leigh), C Pearson (Leeds), L Penny, J Roper (both Warrington), P Rowley (Leigh), R Sheridan (Sheffield), C Smith, N Sykes (both Castleford), M Vassilakopoulos (Leeds), M Wainwright (Warrington), P Warington (St Helens), J Windley (Hull).

STATE OF ORIGIN (Sydney): Queensland 16 New South Wales 12.