{{Short description|Australian rugby union international}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Use Australian English|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Rod Batterham | image = | caption = | full_name = Roderick Paul Batterham | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|11|24|df=y}} | birth_place = Parramatta, Sydney, Australia | death_date = | death_place = | height = | weight = | occupation = | school = | university = | relatives = | position = Wing | repyears1 = 1967–70 | repteam1 = {{nrut|Australia}} | repcaps1 = 2 | reppoints1 = 15 }} '''Roderick Paul Batterham''' (born 24 November 1947) is an Australian former rugby union international.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131674297 |title=Rod Batterham back in favour |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=2 October 1968 |page=32 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
Batterham was born in Sydney and attended North Sydney Technical High School.<ref name="ClassicWallabies">{{cite web |title=Roderick Paul Batterham |url=https://classicwallabies.com.au/players/roderick-paul-batterham |website=classicwallabies.com.au |language=en}}</ref>
A winger, Batterham was a prolific try scorer and gained his first international cap as a 19-year old in 1967, against the All Blacks in Wellington. He scored all of Australia's nine points, including two tries. Despite an impressive debut, he wasn't capped again until 1970, when he again scored two tries as the Wallabies beat Scotland at the Sydney Cricket Ground. He was however part of four tours with the Wallabies, including an injury disrupted trip to South Africa.<ref name="ClassicWallabies"/>
Batterham captained Parramatta to the club's first Shute Shield title in 1977. It was his maiden first-class premiership after playing in seven previous grand finals, three with Gordon, two in Canberra rugby and two with Parramatta.<ref>{{cite news |title=RU title to Parramatta |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/121423782 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=26 September 1977}}</ref>
==See also== *List of Australia national rugby union players
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{ESPNscrum|7285}}
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