Carter ready for All Blacks return, says club coach

Canterbury coach Rob Penney is confident Dan Carter is ready to return to the New Zealand squad for the Tri Nations and Bledisloe Cup Test against Australia in Sydney in three weeks' time.

The Canterbury pivot showed no signs of a recurrence of the Achilles tendon problem that sidelined him for six months when playing the first 64 minutes for his province against North Harbour in the opening round of the Air New Zealand Cup last week.