Born at Bridgetown, Western Australia, Pascoe was educated at Punchbowl Boys' High School in New South Wales, where he was a classmate of Jeff Thomson.
Pascoe retired from international cricket due to a knee injury after the 1981/82 Frank Worrell Trophy series in Australia.
[4][5] While a former NSW teammate, Geoff Lawson, claimed in his autobiography that Pascoe was often subject to baiting about his ethnicity during matches, especially from brothers Ian and Greg Chappell, this was contradicted by Pascoe in court, under oath in a defamation case, when he stated that such comments were never made.
[5] He once stated, tongue-in-cheek, that "a tiger never changes its spots" (in a sarcastic response to wicket-keeper Rod Marsh's comment "I thought you were going to bowl more bouncers").
[7] In November 2017, after returning home from a tour of South Australia and Western Australia with former teammates Doug Walters and Jeff Thomson, it was reported that Pascoe had been diagnosed with an infection of cryptococcal gattii and had to spend three weeks in a hospital in Sydney for treatment.
Scullion wrote the song, titled "1868", and sung it at the second Twenty20 International at the Sydney Cricket Ground in early 2021, and planned to do so again at the Bradman Museum in April 2021.
He had a very strong domestic summer in 1976-77 taking 35 wickets at 20 and was selected on the 1977 Ashes squad ahead of Alan Hurst.
[14] Pascoe bowled well in early tour games and was selected in the Australian side for the first test ahead of Mick Malone.
A key turning point of the series was when Rick McCosker dropped Geoff Boycott off Pascoe's bowling.
[17] Pascoe won man of the match in a one day game against the WSC World XI taking 5-30.
In 1982-83 he took 27 wickets at 32.51 and was part of the state side who won the Sheffield Shield, although Pascoe was dropped for the final.
[27] In November 1982 Pascoe gave evidence in a defamation court case from Ian Chappell concerning the bowler.
In 1992, Len Pascoe applied for scholarships to the Australian Cricket Academy for Glenn McGrath and Stuart Clark.