Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1997 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for one hundred and twenty-six years. In the County Championship, they won two matches to finish sixteenth in their ninety fourth season in the Championship. They came fourteenth in the AXA Life League and did not progress from the group in the National Westminster Bank Trophy. They reached the semi-final of the Benson & Hedges Cup.

1997 season

Derbyshire played seventeen matches in the County Championship, one against Cambridge University, one against the touring Australians and one against the Pakistan A team. They won five first class matches overall but three wins were in the non-championship games leaving only two wins in the championship. They won four and lost nine matches in the Sunday league. Dean Jones was in his second season as captain. Kim Barnett was top scorer although Chris Adams scored most runs in the one-day game including five centuries. Devon Malcolm took most wickets. The team set two partnership records during the season - the second wicket partnership of 417 by Kim Barnett and Tim Tweats against Yorkshire and the third wicket partnership of 316* by Adrian Rollins and Kim Barnett against Leicestershire.

Matches

First Class

{| class="wikitable" width="100%" ! bgcolor="#efefef" colspan=6 | List of matches !No. !Date !V !Result !Margin !Notes |- FP Fenner's Ground, Cambridge |- St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury County Ground, Derby | Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood | 131 runs Trent Bridge, Nottingham | 2 wickets County Ground, Derby | 1 wicket Queen's Park, Chesterfield | 7 wickets Edgbaston, Birmingham County Ground, Derby | Southchurch Park, Southend-on-Sea | Innings and 145 runs County Ground, Derby College Ground, Cheltenham Queen's Park, Chesterfield Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street County Ground, Derby Grace Road, Leicester | 163 runs County Ground, Derby County Ground, Derby County Ground, New Road, Worcester County Ground, Derby

AXA Life League

{| class="wikitable" width="70%" ! bgcolor="#efefef" colspan=6 | List of matches !No. !Date !V !Result !Margin !Notes St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury County Ground, Derby County Ground, Derby Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood Trent Bridge, Nottingham Queen's Park, Chesterfield Edgbaston, Birmingham County Ground, Derby | Essex Southchurch Park, Southend-on-Sea County Ground, Derby College Ground, Cheltenham Queen's Park, Chesterfield Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street Grace Road, Leicester County Ground, Derby County Ground, Derby County Ground, New Road, Worcester

National Westminster Bank Trophy

{| class="wikitable" width="70%" ! bgcolor="#efefef" colspan=6 | List of matches !No. !Date !V !Result !Margin !Notes |- | Lincolnshire Lindum Sports Club Ground, Lincoln County Ground, Derby County Ground, Derby

Benson and Hedges Cup

{| class="wikitable" width="60%" ! bgcolor="#efefef" colspan=6 | List of matches !No. !Date !V !Result !Margin !Notes County Ground, Lakenham Old Trafford, Manchester County Ground, Derby County Ground, Derby County Ground, Derby

Statistics

Competition batting averages

Competition bowling averages

Wicket Keeping

KM Krikken