Inglis, who was named captain of the Kangaroos on Monday morning, was driving home to Sydney from an Indigenous rugby league tournament at Dubbo when he was pulled over by police on the Great Western Highway outside Lithgow at about 2.15pm on Monday.

He had his license suspended, and is due to appear at Lithgow Local Court on November 22.

“Officers attached to the Traffic and Highway Patrol Command were conducting stationary speed enforcement on the Great Western Highway at Lithgow when they detected a black Mercedes-Benz travelling above the speed limit,” a NSW Police statement read.

“Police stopped the car and performed a roadside breath test on the 31-year-old driver, a man from Coogee, which allegedly returned a positive reading.”

Inglis was pulled over in the final hours of Operation Slow Down – NSW’s Labour Day weekend road safety campaign – which saw double demerits in place for all speeding, mobile phone, seat belt and motorcycle-helmet offences.

He had spent the long weekend in Dubbo, where he played in the NSW Aboriginal Rugby League Knockout for the Wall Street Warriors, a team from his boyhood town of Macksville.

Speaking to the Daily Liberal on the weekend about taking to Apex Oval in the ‘Koori Knockout’, he said “I love coming back here and playing”.

“We always talk about grassroots footy, and you never forget where you came from,” he said.

“I’m just extremely proud.”

Inglis plays in the NRL for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, as well as having a long and successful history with the Melbourne Storm outfit, as well as in Queensland and Australian colours.