A member of their 1961 County Championship winning team, he took 320 wickets from 121 first-class matches for Hampshire as a slow left-arm orthodox bowler.
[1] He impressed in club cricket for Fareham United, taking with his slow left-arm orthodox bowling nine of the ten wickets to fall against the staff of Winchester College in August 1956.
[3] He made his debut in first-class cricket for Hampshire against Cambridge University at Bournemouth in 1957, in what was his only first eleven appearance that season.
[9] Having established himself in the Hampshire starting eleven and made large strides in his game during the 1961 season, Wassell was considered one of the most exciting spin bowling prospects in the country.
[18] Wassell married Joan Gladys Gatrell in July 1960 at St John the Evangelist's Church in Fareham.
He regained some of his mobility through physiotherapy, which was funded by the Professional Cricketers' Association, of which he is an active member, following a recommendation by Peter Haslop.