As we head into potentially a very interesting summer of cricket against the West Indies and India, to be honest, we are not in a healthy state at all.
When I say healthy, that's just it, our players are far from healthy. It's an American term so let me change
that to: we are far from fit.
Kane Williamson is out with a broken finger, Brendon McCullum has a back injury and for want of a better term is falling apart in his later years, Ross Taylor has a dicky knee, Corey Anderson has bad ribs, Tim Southee is carefully returning from injury, as is Daniel Vettori, and Martin Guptill appears to be accident-prone right now.
Throw into the mix that Jesse Ryder now has an injury to go with his other issues and we are left with either putting together a team of hobblers or cobbling together a team of second-stringers.
Then there's the form of key performers, and that's not overly healthy right now either. McCullum is right in the middle of a slump and has had no cricket to gain any form, Hamish Rutherford has lost his mojo having only averaged just 14 from his last 12 innings in all cricket and the second coming of Peter Fulton has run out of steam somewhat.
