Ashwell was a right-arm fast-medium paced opening bowler.
[1] He made his first-class cricket debut for the Kent First XI in the same season against Nottinghamshire in the 1933 County Championship.
[4][5] He remained in the area and coached young players at the club for "decades".
[5] A room in the clubhouse at Parkgate Cricket Ground is named after him.
[6] Ashwell died at Bebington near Birkenhead on the Wirral Peninsula in August 1985 aged 77.