Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1983 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for one hundred and twelve years. In the County Championship, they won seven matches to finish ninth in their seventy ninth season in the Championship. They came sixth in the John Player Special League. They did not progress from the group in the Benson & Hedges Cup and reached round two in the National Westminster Bank Trophy.

1983 season

Derbyshire played twenty four first class matches, which were all in the County Championship. They won seven matches and lost five in both the championship and in the Sunday league. They lost to Middlesex in the second round of the NWB Trophy and lost the only two matches which were completed in the Benson and Hedges Cup. Barry Wood was captain, Kim Barnett was top scorer and Ole Mortensen took most wickets. Bill Fowler made his first class debut for the club in the first of two seasons.

Matches

First Class

{| class="wikitable" width="100%" ! bgcolor="#efefef" colspan=6 | List of matches !No. !Date !V !Result !Margin !Notes |4 May 1983 |11 May 1983 | Lancashire Queen's Park, Chesterfield |28 May 1983 |8 Jun 1983 | 11 Jun 1983 |15 Jun 1983 | Essex County Ground, Derby |18 Jun 1983 |22 Jun 1983 |25 Jun 1983 |9 Jul 1983 |13 Jul 1983 |16 Jul 1983 |30 Jul 1983 |6 Aug 1983 |13 Aug 1983 |20 Aug 1983 | Glamorgan St Helen's, Swansea |24 Aug 1983 | Lancashire Stanley Park, Blackpool |27 Aug 1983 |7 Sep 1983 |10 Sep 1983

John Player Special League

{| class="wikitable" width="70%" ! bgcolor="#efefef" colspan=6 | List of matches !No. !Date !V !Result !Margin !Notes |- | Lancashire Old Trafford, Manchester | 12 Jun 1983 | 26 Jun 1983 |10 Jul 1983 |7 Aug 1983 |14 Aug 1983 |21 Aug 1983 | Glamorgan St Helen's, Swansea |28 Aug 1983 |4 Sep 1983

National Westminster Bank Trophy

{| class="wikitable" width="70%" ! bgcolor="#efefef" colspan=6 | List of matches !No. !Date !V !Result !Margin

!Notes

Benson and Hedges Cup

{| class="wikitable" width="70%" ! bgcolor="#efefef" colspan=6 | List of matches !No. !Date !V !Result !Margin !Notes |7 May 1983 |14 May 1983 |17 May 1983 |19 May 1983 | Lancashire County Ground, Derby

Statistics

Competition batting averages

Competition bowling averages

Wicket Keeping