DAN
PARKS
Daniel Arthur Parks crossed the globe initially for three months in 2001 when he was on trial with Leeds Tykes. He joined Glasgow Rugby in summer 2003 from the Eastern Suburbs club in Sydney, debuting as replacement in the victory over Celtic Warriors in September 2003. Qualifying for Scotland through an Ayrshire-born maternal
grandfather, Dan gained his first Scotland cap from the bench in the opening match of the 2004 RBS 6 Nations Championship against Wales. He became Scotland’s first- choice stand-off on that summer’s tour of his native Australia, scoring nine penalties and eight conversions. He continued throughout the 2004 Abbey Autumn Tests
but had to wait until his ninth cap before scoring his first international try – in the 100-8 victory against Japan in November 2004. That was followed by two tries in 2005 – against Romania in Bucharest and Argentina at Murrayfield. In the latter match he weighed in with his second international drop goal, his third coming in the 2006 Calcutta Cup triumph against England. Contributing 15 points (a try and five conversions) to
Scotland’s 56-10 win against Portugal on his World Cup debut in September 2007, he topped the Scotland players’ own poll for their Player of the World Cup. Dan marked the end of the 2007/08 season by becoming the twelfth player to score a century of international points for Scotland. Dan became the first player to score 1000 points in Celtic
Rugby when he kicked 20 in Glasgow Warriors’ 25-12 win against Edinburgh in December 2009. In February 2010 he gave man-of-the-match performances against Wales in Cardiff, Italy in Rome, Ireland at Croke Park and again in Argentina when he scored all Scotland’s points in their 24-16 victory in Tucuman, so setting a new Scottish record as the highest unique points scorer in a win, surpassing Chris Paterson’s 21 point haul against Wales in 2007. He contributed all 21 points in Scotland’s 2010 EMC Autumn Test victory against South Africa and his drop-goal in the 19-16 win over Samoa was his 13th for Scotland, surpassing the previous record of 12 held by John Rutherford.
Club: Cardiff Blues
School: Marsden High School, Sydney Born: 26 May 1978 in Hornsby, Australia Height: 5ft 11in (1.81m) • Weight: 13st 12lb (88kg) Position: Stand-off
INTERNATIONAL RECORD: 62 caps Points: 236 Tries: 4 Conversions: 15 Penalties: 48 Drop goals: 14 2004 – W (rep) E (rep) F (rep) I Sam (rep) A1 A2 A3 J A4 SA 2005 – F I It W R Arg Sam NZ 2006 – F W E I It (rep) SA1 PI A 2007 – E I1 F I2 (rep) SA (rep) RWC [Por R NZ (rep) It Arg] 2008 – F W I (rep) E (rep) It Arg1 Arg2 (rep) NZ (rep) SA (rep) Can (rep) 2010 – W It E I Arg1 Arg2 NZ SA Sam 2011 – F W I (rep) E (rep) It (rep) It2
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