"It's part of the cricket landscape now where you've got to bounce back pretty quickly no matter what the format or what the game so I don't see any problems."
CD lead the Ford Trophy competition, sitting a bonus point above the Aces who also have two wins and a loss when their campaign started late last year although the T20 intervened before Christmas.
An already formidable side, the Stags was going to have the experience and nous of Black Caps record-breaking run scorer Ross Taylor before he was recalled yesterday for injured Colin Munro. However, strike bowler Adam Milne and swing merchant Seth Rance are back in the equation today.
Oram says throw in the likes of Black Caps opening batsman George Worker and former international Jesse Ryder and a certain level of maturity starts defining the CD resolve.
"You almost don't even need to talk about it because they'll be aware different formats require different game plans going into it [Ford Trophy] whether you're batting or bowling," says the 39-year-old former CD representative.
Milne, he says, has had more than his fair share of injuries but possesses extremely good work ethic and attitude.
"I know he works his butt off but, unfortunately, every now and then he picks up the odd niggle but I guess that's true of someone who bowls 150-plus kilometres an hour.
"It's a physically stressful thing to do, not that I know about it officially, but it takes it out of you so he does everything he can without a shadow of doubt," he says of Manawatu cricketer Milne who he has been working with for a few summers.
Oram says it'll be great to see the 25-year-old right-arm fast bowler hitting his straps all the way from CD to the Black Caps again.
As a contracted player, he says New Zealand Cricket will monitor Milne's workload but the bowler has enough smarts to know how far he'll need to push himself to return to his best as well as put to test the ankle injury that left him on the sidelines.
T20 highest wicket taker Blair Tickner, says Oram, has incrementally developed as a seamer.
"Physically he has all the tools to go all the way, I think," he says of the Ruahine Motors Central Hawke's Bay CC cricketer.
"He's six foot creeping, physically strong and relatively injury free because he's got through three summers so far, so I think with the numbers he's been putting on the board I'm sure the New Zealand selectors will start to look at his name because he's done everything asked of him."
His speed and accuracy are also noticeably rising.
Oram is loath to say the batting or bowling is the strength of CD.
"We should put runs on the board but at the same have the depth and quality of pace to take wickets."
The guile of left-arm spinner Ajaz Patel, he points out, adds to the bowling repertoire.
Oram says CD is blessed with elite seamers although feels it's imperative to keep Patel not for spinner's representation but simply because his statistics for a couple of seasons demand that.
Had Taylor stayed with CD, he was on track to make his first domestic limited-overs appearance today in Auckland since his only match last summer, when he returned from eye surgery in February last year.
Today was going to be the veteran batsman's 38th domestic outing in a format where he averages 49.45, including his highest List A career score of an unbeaten 132.
Rance played for the Black Caps in Thursday night's 48-run T20 loss to Pakistan but will return to the Stags fold today.
CD have won the Ford Trophy twice in the past two seasons. The Canterbury Kings are the defending champions.
■ CD Stags: William Young (c, Taranaki), Joshua Clarkson (Nelson), Dane Cleaver (w, Manawatu), Adam Milne (Manawatu), Ajaz Patel (HB), Seth Rance (Wairarapa), Jesse Ryder (HB), Bevan Small (Manawatu), Ben Smith (Whanganui), Ross Taylor (Wairarapa), Blair Tickner (HB), George Worker (Manawatu).
Coach: Heinrich Malan
Team manager: Lance Hamilton
