Wallabies seasoned Kurtley Beale has expressed "surprise" astatine earning a callback to the nationalist broadside for 3 Tests successful the United Kingdom this month.
Beale, 32, was added to the Australian squad aft Reece Hodge suffered a pectoral wounded and Quade Cooper, Samu Kerevi and Sean McMahon withdrew from the outpouring circuit to absorption connected their Japanese nine commitments.
He started astatine wrong centre successful Racing 92's 27-18 triumph implicit French Top 14 champions Toulouse yesterday but is being viewed chiefly arsenic a fullback enactment by Wallabies manager Dave Rennie.
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"I'm precise excited to beryllium joining up with the Wallabies," Beale told reporters successful France.
"A spot of a astonishment but an accidental to beryllium amongst the nationalist squad is an honour.
"Being distant from it makes you realise however large it is, however peculiar it is to correspond your country."
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Beale, capped 92 clip for Australia, had an eventful clip against Toulouse, yellowish carded aft 30 minutes for a precocious tackle that injured winger Arthur Bonneval.
"There was nary intent, nary malice," Beale said.
"He was going down. It was rather fast, I went to carnivore hug him.
"It's unfortunate what happened."
Australia's adjacent Test is against Scotland successful Edinburgh adjacent Monday (1am AEDT).
Beale shapes arsenic a seat enactment with Andrew Kellaway and Jordan Petaia much apt options astatine 15 arsenic helium integrates backmost into the squad.
"We get a accidental to look astatine Kurtley successful our radical and get an knowing of however helium would acceptable successful from a taste position and a rugby perspective," Rennie said past week.
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