Paddy Batch
Full namePatrick Gerard Batch
Date of birth (1953-01-19) 19 January 1953
Place of birthInnisfail, QLD, Australia
Rugby union career
Position(s) Wing
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1975–79 Australia 14 (20)

Patrick Gerard Batch (born 19 January 1953) is an Australian former rugby union international.

Batch is a native of Innisfail in Far North Queensland and attended Marist College Ashgrove.[1]

A winger, Batch was capped 14 times for the Wallabies, debuting on the 1975–76 tour of Britain, for which he had been a surprise selection.[2] He also toured New Zealand in 1978 and scored a try against the All Blacks in Wellington.[3]

Batch, a graduate of the University of Queensland, was a veterinarian by profession.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Patrick Gerard Batch". classicwallabies.com.au.
  2. "Wallaby touring squad named". The Canberra Times. 1 September 1975. p. 12.
  3. "Wright despairs as late kick misses". The Canberra Times. 20 August 1978. p. 26.
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