Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1939 was the last cricket season before World War II, when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for sixty-eight years. It was their forty first season in the County Championship and they won ten matches in the Championship, to finish ninth.

1939 season

Derbyshire played 28 matches in the County Championship, one against Oxford University and one against the touring West Indians. They won eleven matches altogether, ten in the County Championship. Robin Buckston was in his third season as captain. Denis Smith scored most runs and Bill Copson took most wickets. Nearly all the players had been members of the 1936 championship winning team and the only player to make his debut was Cliff Gladwin whose low scores and failure to take a wicket gave little inkling that he would turn out to be Derbyshire's main wicket-taker in the years after World War II.

Matches

{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;" ! style="background:#efefef;" colspan="6"| List of matches !No. !Date !V !Result !Margin !Notes |10 May 1939 The University Parks, Oxford Queen's Park, Chesterfield |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn County Ground, Derby Edgbaston, Birmingham Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston Old Trafford, Manchester Queen's Park, Chesterfield County Ground, Derby | Surrey Woodbridge Road, Guildford Park Road Ground, Buxton Queen's Park, Chesterfield Bramall Lane, Sheffield County Ground, Derby Langridge scored a hat-trick Queen's Park, Chesterfield Trent Bridge, Nottingham County Ground, Derby Queen's Park, Chesterfield Tipton Road, Dudley County Ground, Derby Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood Bat and Ball Ground, Gravesend Queen's Park, Chesterfield Ind Coope Ground, Burton-on-Trent County Ground, Northampton Southchurch Park, Southend-on-Sea College Ground, Cheltenham Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston The Saffrons, Eastbourne County Ground, Taunton Aylestone Road, Leicester

Statistics

County Championship batting averages

County Championship bowling averages

Wicket Keeper