Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1958 represents the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing eighty-seven years. It was their fifty-fourth season in the County Championship and they won nine matches in the County Championship to finish fifth.

1958 season

Derbyshire played 28 games in the County Championship, one match against Oxford University, and one against the touring New Zealanders. They won ten matches altogether, and ended fifth in the County Championship. Donald Carr was in his fourth season as captain. Charles Lee was top scorer. Les Jackson took most wickets for Derbyshire and topped the national bowler list with 143 wickets. His bowling average of 10.99 has not been exceeded since. Hampshire's score of 23 in the match at the Ind Coope ground remains the record for lowest runs in a match against Derbyshire The only new player was Jim Brailsford who made his three first-class career appearances for Derbyshire during the season.

Matches

{| class="wikitable" width="100%" ! bgcolor="#efefef" colspan=6 | List of matches !No. !Date !V !Result !Margin !Notes |- The University Parks, Oxford |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won County Ground, Derby Queen's Park, Chesterfield |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost County Ground, Derby Queen's Park, Chesterfield County Ground, Northampton |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost Ashley Down Ground, Bristol |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost Park Road Ground, Buxton County Ground, Derby Chester Road North Ground, Kidderminster |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost Queen's Park, Chesterfield Central Recreation Ground, Hastings St Helen's, Swansea |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won Recreation Ground, Bath |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost Queen's Park, Chesterfield |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost | 6 wickets Bath Grounds, Ashby-de-la-Zouch |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won | Innings and 42 runs Chalkwell Park, Westcliff-on-Sea |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won | 2 wickets Trent Bridge, Nottingham |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won | Innings and 88 runs Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won | Innings and 2 runs Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Edgbaston, Birmingham |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won | 7 wickets St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost | Innings and 8 runs County Ground, Derby | Ind Coope Ground, Burton-on-Trent |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won | 103 runs Headingley, Leeds |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost | 86 runs Queen's Park, Chesterfield | County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won | 132 runs Old Trafford, Manchester |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost | 6 wickets Dean Park, Bournemouth |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won

Statistics

County Championship batting averages

County Championship bowling averages

Wicket Keepers