Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1976 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for one hundred and five years. In the County Championship, they won four matches to finish fifteenth in their seventy-second season in the Championship. They came twelfth in the John Player League and reached the quarter-final of the Gillette Cup. They were eliminated at group level in the Benson & Hedges Cup.

1976 season

Derbyshire played twenty matches in the County Championship, one each against Oxford and Cambridge University and one against the touring West Indians. They won six first class matches overall but two of these were against the universities when Phil Sharpe clocked up a century and a double century. Derbyshire won seven and lost nine matches in the Sunday league. Bob Taylor was in his second season as captain. Eddie Barlow was top scorer overall in the Championship and one competitions although Alan Hill was top scorer in the championship alone. Geoff Miller took most wickets.

Matches

First Class

{| class="wikitable" width="100%" ! bgcolor="#efefef" colspan=6 | List of matches !No. !Date !V !Result !Margin !Notes |12 May 1976 | 29 May 1976 |12 Jun 1976 | 16 Jun 1976 |19 Jun 1976 | Essex Castle Park Cricket Ground, Colchester |23 Jun 1976 |30 Jun 1976 |3 Jul 1976 |7 Jul 1976 |10 Jul 1976 |21 Jul 1976 |24 Jul 1976 |31 Jul 1976 |7 Aug 1976 |14 Aug 1976 |21 Aug 1976 |1 Sep 1976 |8 Sep 1976

John Player League

{| class="wikitable" width="70%" ! bgcolor="#efefef" colspan=6 | List of matches !No. !Date !V !Result !Margin !Notes |- | Lancashire Queen's Park, Chesterfield |2 May 1976 | Essex Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston | 6 Jun 1976 | Surrey Kennington Oval |13 Jun 1976 | Sussex Trent College Ground, Long Eaton |4 Jul 1976 |25 Jul 1976 |1 Aug 1976 |8 Aug 1976 |15 Aug 1976 | Glamorgan St Helen's, Swansea |29 Aug 1976 | Northamptonshire Park Road Ground, Buxton | Worcestershire Ind Coope Ground, Burton-on-Trent

Gillette Cup

{| class="wikitable" width="70%" ! bgcolor="#efefef" colspan=6 | List of matches !No. !Date !V !Result !Margin !Notes |- | Lincolnshire Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston

-	Surrey Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston

Benson and Hedges Cup

{| class="wikitable" width="60%" ! bgcolor="#efefef" colspan=6 | List of matches !No. !Date !V !Result !Margin !Notes |24 Apr 1976 |3 May 1976 | 8 May 1976 |15 May 1976

Statistics

Competition batting averages

Competition bowling averages

Wicket Keeping

Bob Taylor