Kangaroos coach Mal Meninga is likely to make changes to his team for Australia's semi-final clash with New Zealand, but it looks like the constant speculation over what shape the halves will take may finally be over.

Meninga confirmed that he was inclined to โ€˜pick and stick' the starting 13 that made light work of Lebanon in the quarter-finals, although there may be changes in store for the bench rotation.

โ€œWe're obviously going to be tested defensively this week,โ€ Meninga told SEN.

โ€œWe lacked a bit of composure (against Lebanon). If we want to win the World Cup we've got to grind and get a good victory out.

โ€œWe'll pick and stick. We've got a couple of things we want to look at from our bench point of view. I'm pretty comfortable with our starting 13 I think that works really well.

โ€œWe've got Reagan Campbell-Gillard perhaps to come back into the 13 โ€“ and Ben Hunt's back this week because we rested him.

โ€œMaybe we go for an all-forwards bench this week to counteract the big forwards and quality of the New Zealand pack.โ€

Though unconfirmed, it's widely believed that Hunt will take the place of Daly Cherry-Evans on the bench after Meninga experimented with his options during the quarter-final win.

โ€œIt's no secret that they work well together, Ben (Hunt) and Harry (Grant). They did really well at Origin level and they've done really well in the first couple of games together.

โ€œThey're fit and raring to go. At this stage I would think both are going to play.โ€