While Jacob Oram is disappointed in failing to retain his specialist white-ball coaching stint Central Districts Stags coach Heinrich Malan says the former Black Caps allrounder has the opportunity to return to the stable next season.
"In a perfect world we would have been able to finance another specialist coach but sometimes you just have to skin the cat differently," says Malan after CD Cricket appointed county cricket coach Ben Smith, who represented the Devon Hotel-sponsored CD Stags during the 2000-01 and 2001-02 seasons, to support him during the McDonald's Super Smash Twenty20 and one-day Ford Trophy competitions.
When he walks into the office of new CEO Pete de Wet, Malan hopes to ask for more money hopefully the major association will have enough in its coffers.
"The boys have enjoyed working with Jake and if things work out we'll have him back in the mix," he said soon after the Stags returned from their abandoned four-day Plunket Shield against the Wellington Firebirds at the Basin Reserve.
He reiterated coach Smith, not to be mistaken for the incumbent batsman by the same name, was a "through and through CD man" with some playing and coaching experience.