Player Profile

Mitchell Stanley arrived at Lancashire from Worcestershire ahead of the 2024 summer, the fast bowler described as an “exciting and raw talent” by Mark Chilton.

That was the view of the county’s director of cricket performance, something given further weight when he was called up by the England Lions for their 2024/25 winter tours to South Africa and Australia, where he worked under head coach Andrew Flintoff. 

He toured Australia again and Abu Dhabi with the Lions in the 2025/26 winter.

But Stanley best demonstrated his capabilities with a fabulous display of searing pace and skill in a late-season Rothesay County Championship match in 2025, taking 11 wickets in a draw against Kent at Canterbury - 5-80 and 6-100. 

It was only his second first-class career appearance. 

Stanley is a Telford-born tearaway aged 24 who has debuted in both forms of limited overs cricket. Both of his first-class appearances came from mid-2025 onwards. 

That owes much to injury issues in recent years. 

He played five times for Lancashire in his first summer at Emirates Old Trafford; four in the Vitality Blast and one in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup. He claimed a wicket in three of those appearances. 

In 2025, the right-armer took 13 wickets in five appearances across the formats for Lancashire. 

Stanley has been with the Manchester Originals in the Hundred in recent years, though only played in 2022. 

He is a bowler with express pace and spent two seasons at New Road in 2022 and 2023, having joined Worcestershire from National Counties cricket with his home side, Shropshire.

Before signing with the Pears, he played in their age-groups and second team.

He also played one game for Delhi Bulls in the 2022 version of the Abu Dhabi T10 competition, claiming an impressive 2-16 from two overs in a win over Chennai Braves.