Peter Bills, writing for The Belfast Telegraph, is pleased to see the understated Dan Carter back in action.
"As locations go for comebacks, it might have been sexier. North Harbour’s rugby ground just across the water from Auckland sees the return early this morning our time of a player who stands alone as certainly the most valuable in New Zealand and arguably in the entire game.
"Daniel Carter has not run onto a rugby ground to play a match since Saturday, January 31, when he represented the French club Perpignan against Stade Francais at the Stade de France. In the last minute of that club game, he tore an Achilles tendon.
"Thus, Carter’s return represents a significant event. Wearing the colours of his province Canterbury, Carter will seek to demonstrate that he is almost ready for a recall to the familiar jersey of the All Blacks.
"But what interests me most about Dan Carter is not what sort of a rugby player he is."
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