Central Districts will be holding interviews on Monday to decide on their coach for next summer.

The position became vacant at the end of the recent season when Dipak Patel announced he would no longer available.

Incumbent CD coaching director Mark Greatbatch and former England Test player Graham Barlow are the two interviewees for the job.

Greatbatch, the former New Zealand international with 41 Tests behind him, has been involved in coaching with CD since his retirement in 1998 and this year was the coach of the New Zealand Under-19 team at the ICC Under-19 World Cup held in New Zealand.

Barlow, who now lives in New Plymouth having moved to New Zealand from South Africa where he coached Border and Western Province B, as well as being head coach of the Eastern Province Academy has been used extensively for coaching in the Taranaki region over the past summer.

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