Roddy Woodhouse Fulton (born 5 August 1951 in

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) grew up in North Canterbury and attended Christ's College Secondary School in Canterbury and during his years at school captained the cricket 1st XI and rugby union 1st XV. He played representative cricket for

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and

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from 1972 to 1985 captaining both teams with players such as John Wright,

Geoff Howarth Geoffrey Philip Howarth (born 29 March 1951) is a former New Zealand cricketer and former captain, who remains the only New Zealand captain to have positive win–loss records in both Test cricket and ODI cricket. He was the third most success ...

and Sir Richard Hadlee playing under his captaincy. Roddy Fulton was a powerful left-handed batsmen and occasionally bowled right-arm medium pace. He also played two games for New Zealand A before injuring his right shoulder while playing for

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2nd XI which spelled an end to his cricket career. He played alongside the likes of

John Emburey John Ernest Emburey (born 20 August 1952) is a former English first-class cricketer who played for Middlesex, Northamptonshire, Western Province, Berkshire and England. According to cricket writer Colin Bateman, Emburey's participation in two So ...

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, and

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. During this time Fulton was on the fringe of selection for New Zealand. In later years he worked as a selector for Canterbury Cricket between 1993-1994 and then worked for

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as Director in 1995. He is married to Kate and has three children Sam, Ben, and Jessica. He is the Uncle of

Peter Fulton Peter Gordon Fulton (born 1 February 1979) is a former New Zealand international cricketer who played for Canterbury at domestic level. He comes from a well recognised cricketing family with his uncle Roddy Fulton playing and captaining both C ...

who has played for New Zealand and Canterbury. Since NZ Cricket he has developed his own business buying and selling thoroughbred race horses and is well known amongst the New Zealand horse racing industry. He is also the nephew of Dame

Kate Harcourt Dame Catherine Winifred Harcourt (née Fulton; born 16 June 1927), known professionally as Kate Harcourt, is a New Zealand actress. Over her long career she has worked in comedy as well as drama in theatre, film, TV and radio. Personal life Ha ...

, and cousin of

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and Gordon Harcourt, who has appeared on the TV series ''

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''.

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