| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batting style | Unknown | |||
| Bowling style | Slow left arm orthodox | |||
| International information | ||||
| National side | English | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | First-class | |||
| Matches | 11 | |||
| Runs scored | 44 | |||
| Batting average | 4 | |||
| 100s/50s | -/- | |||
| Top score | 11 | |||
| Balls bowled | 1989 | |||
| Wickets | 50 | |||
| Bowling average | 15.82 | |||
| 5 wickets in innings | 5 | |||
| 10 wickets in match | 2 | |||
| Best bowling | 7/61 | |||
| Catches/stumpings | 7/- | |||
| Source: [1], | ||||
Jerry Lionel Ainsworth was a first class cricketer. He was born on 11 September 1877 in Freshfield, Formby, Lancashire and died on 30 December 1923 in Falmouth, Cornwall. A slow left arm bowler, he took 50 first class wickets at just 15.82. He played 4 matches for Lancashire County Cricket Club in 1899 and also appeared for PF Warner's XI in 1898, AJ Webbe's XI in 1900, HDG Leveson-Gower's XI in 1902 and the Europeans in India in 1904/05. His brother, George Ainsworth was also a first class cricketer. Ainsworth was no batsman but took 5 wickets in an innings 5 times, 4 of these against the Philadelphians, against whom he claimed his best figures of 7 for 61.