the same game Paterson was seriously injured, suffering a split kidney which forced him to miss the rest of the season. In the same game Rory Lamont suffered cruciate ligament damage which ended his season, and Thom Evans suffered a potentially life-threatening neck injury in a collision with Lee Byrne. This injury forced Evans to retire from rugby aged just 25. Later that year on Saturday 20 November 2010 Paterson gained his 101st cap in a 21–17 win against current world champions, South Africa, at Murrayfield coming on for the final 8 minutes. Along with Nikki Walker and Nathan Hines, he was one of three players in that match who had also been in the Scotland team that beat South Africa in 2002. During the 2011 Six Nations Championship Paterson was the 23rd man in the squad when he travelled to Paris but played no part. Following Scotland's poor defeat to Wales in the second game of the tournament, Paterson was recalled to the starting 15 for the Ireland, England and Italy games. In addition to scoring 31 points with the boot in these three matches he justified his inclusion with an impressive try-saving tackle on Ben Foden, when the England Fullback seemed certain to score. This helped to keep Scotland in with a chance of winning the game until the last few minutes, although they eventually lost 22–16. The following week he made an almost identical try-saving tackle against Luke McLean during Scotland's 21–8 victory over Italy. In the latter match, Paterson also became only the fifth player to score more than 400 points in the history of the Five/Six Nations Tournament. Testament to Paterson's committed performances during the 2011 Six Nations Championship he featured in several rugby journalists 'Team of the Championship' On 22 August 2011 Paterson was selected in Scotland's 2011 Rugby World Cup squad meaning this would be in fourth Rugby World Cup. Paterson scored 14 points in Scotland's opening game of the 2011 Rugby World Cup in the 34–24 victory over Romania In Scotland's second pool game of the 2011 Rugby World Cup during the 15–6 victory over Georgia Paterson made a substitute appearance in the 70th minute his 13th World Cup appearance one short of Doddie Weir's record of 14 World Cup appearances. In Scotland's third pool game in the 13–12 defeat against Argentina Paterson equalled Doddie Weir's record of 14 appearances scoring a