Will Joe Schmidt's dice roll on Tom Lynagh define the series?

Joe Schmidt’s decision to hand 22-year-old Lynagh his first Test start in just his fourth international for Australia has to be considered a gamble.

Australia's Tom Lynagh during a training session at Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane. Pic: David Davies/PA Wire.

The battle of the fly-halves could just be the head-to-head that defines this series between Australia and the British & Irish Lions. 

Yet ahead of Saturday’s first Test at Suncorp Stadium, it was the intrigue of not knowing which way it would go that made the duel between the Wallabies’ rookie fly-half Tom Lynagh and Finn Russell, the Lions number 10, ready to cement his reputation as a world-class playmaker, that was so fascinating.