Wheelchair-bound former New Zealand all-rounder Chris Cairns says he is "very lucky to be alive", three months after a medical emergency left him on life support. The 51-year-old is currently recovering from a spinal stroke that left him paralysed waist down, following several complicated surgeries.

"We don`t know what happens going forward. I don`t know if I`ll walk, I don`t know if I`ll stand. But I may stand. I may walk. The only option is to keep going. The thing is I`m not even just lucky to be (alive). I`m very lucky," Cairns was quoted as saying by Canberra Times. As he opened up on his life post the scare, Cairns was flanked by his wife Melanie.