| Club: | Derbyshire County Cricket Club seasons |
| Season: | 1912 |
| Comp1: | County Championship |
| Comp1 Result: | 12 |
| Most Runs: | Samuel Cadman |
| Most Catches: | Joe Humphries |
| Prevseason: | 1911 |
| Nextseason: | 1913 |
Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1912 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for forty one years. It was their eighteenth season in the County Championship and they won two matches to finish tenth in the Championship table.
Derbyshire played twenty matches, of which eighteen were in the County Championship and the others against touring South Africans and Australians. John Chapman was in his third year as captain. In one of the wettest summers on record, no players scored centuries. Samuel Cadman scored most runs, and had one of the team's two innings in the nineties. Arthur Morton took most wickets.
Significant players who made their debut in the season were Richard Baggallay who went on to captain the side and Geoffrey Jackson whose death in World War I deprived the club of a useful player. New players who had shorter careers were George Burnham and Albert Blount who each played five game in the 1912 season. That was the extent of Burnham's career, but Blount reappeared in one more match fourteen years later.
| List of matches | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Date | V | Result | Margin | Notes |
| 1 | 4 May 1912[1] | South Africans County Ground, Derby | Lost | 7 wickets | A Morton 6–52; Faulkner 5–46 |
| 2 | 13 May 1912[2] | Warwickshire Edgbaston, Birmingham | Lost | Innings and 22 runs | Field 5–60 |
| 3 | 20 May 1912[3] | Lancashire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Drawn | ||
| 4 | 23 May 1912[4] | Sussex County Ground, Hove | Lost | 8 wickets | SWA Cadman 95; AG Slater 5–80; Sims 5–39 |
| 5 | 27 May 1912[5] | Essex County Ground, Leyton | Lost | Innings and 27 runs | Perrin 245; McGahey 150 |
| 6 | 30 May 1912[6] | Hampshire County Ground, Southampton | Drawn | L Oliver 94; Barrett 119; A Warren 5–129 | |
| 7 | 3 Jun 1912[7] | Sussex County Ground, Derby | Drawn | A Morton 5–44; Cox 8–24 | |
| 8 | 6 Jun 1912[8] | Somerset Recreation Ground, Bath | Drawn | Greswell 5–54; A Morton 7–16 | |
| 9 | 13 Jun 1912[9] | Hampshire County Ground, Derby | Lost | 54 runs | A Morton 6–59; Kenedy 5–26; Newman 5–30; A Warren 6–59; Brown 6–77 |
| 10 | 20 Jun 1912[10] | Leicestershire Bath Grounds, Ashby-de-la-Zouch | Won | 83 runs | King 6–65; A Warren 7–52 |
| 11 | 24 Jun 1912[11] | Warwickshire County Ground, Derby | Drawn | ||
| 12 | 29 Jun 1912[12] | Northamptonshire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Drawn | East 6–58; A Warren 5–31 | |
| 13 | 4 Jul 1912[13] | Nottinghamshire Trent Bridge, Nottingham | Lost | Innings and 147 runs | Wass 5–50 and 5–20 |
| 14 | 15 Jul 1912[14] | Somerset County Ground, Derby | Won | 133 runs | Greswell 8–65; A Warren 5–50 |
| 15 | 25 Jul 1912[15] | Leicestershire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Drawn | A Morton 5–73 | |
| 16 | 1 Aug 1912[16] | Australians County Ground, Derby | Drawn | T Forrester 5–76; Matthews 6–23; A Morton 5–52 | |
| 17 | 5 Aug 1912[17] | Essex County Ground, Derby | Drawn | ||
| 18 | 8 Aug 1912[18] | Lancashire Old Trafford, Manchester | Lost | 248 runs | Whitehead 100; Makepeace 99; Dean 6–110 and 6–53 |
| 19 | 17 Aug 1912[19] | Northamptonshire County Ground, Northampton | Lost | 6 wickets | Thompson 5–42; T Forrester 7–18; Smith 6–26 |
| 20 | 26 Aug 1912[20] | Nottinghamshire Miners Welfare Ground, Blackwell | Drawn | Iremonger 6–38 | |