Stephen Repel, the previous Lancashire and Britain left-arm spinner, has been selected as the Lead trainer of Manchester Firsts' ladies' group. Repel, who was brought up in Manchester, played multiple times for Lancashire and is the region's unequaled driving wicket-taker in men's T20 cricket, with 118 at 24.88 including a best of 5 for 13 against Worcestershire in 2016. He played a sum of seven white-ball matches for Britain - containing two ODIs and five T20Is, remembering three appearances at the 2014 World T20 for Bangladesh - and since resigning in 2020, Repel has been training both with Lancashire's ladies group and as an associate mentor to Paul Shaw with the Manchester Firsts. "I'm incredibly thankful for the job I've been given as the new Lead trainer for Manchester Firsts ladies' group," Repel said. "The development of the ladies' down is progressive and, being a pleased Mancunian myself, it is a distinction to be a piece of this group. "I'm a lot of anticipating the competition and everything that could be accomplished and I'm certain we will have the entire city behind us." Manchester Firsts Senior supervisor Lee Morgan added: "It's perfect for Stephen to be offered the chance and backing to move forward to be Lead trainer in the wake of working intimately with Paul Shaw for the last two times of the Hundred, where he's demonstrated the fact that he is imaginative and adaptable with an extraordinary cricket cerebrum. "Paul's choice to step down is abandoning a huge void yet as a youthful, ravenous and yearning mentor, we consider Stephen to be a thrilling arrangement. He is extremely famous with the gathering and as of now comprehends the more extensive desires of the Firsts and what we need to accomplish both on and off the field. "The Manchester Firsts Board and The executives counseled finally about this arrangement, yet regardless of Repel's overall naiveté as a mentor they chose to offer him the chance to begin to live up to his undoubted potential. Other deciding elements were laying out progression in the training structure, keeping up major areas of strength for with joins with Manchester and a big motivator for it, and compensating somebody with genuine drive and desire to succeed. "Everybody associated with the Firsts might want to say thanks to Paul Shaw for every one of his endeavors throughout the course of recent years in fostering the group alongside his more extensive help in the entirety of our drives. We wish him well in his proceeding with work with Lancashire cricket." Active Firsts mentor, Shaw, added: "It's been an incredible honor to have worked with such a ground breaking establishment as the Manchester Firsts. I think Stephen Repel is an extraordinary arrangement and might want to wish him and the group each progress from now on. I feel somewhat doubtful of the effect he will have with the Manchester Firsts".