| Club: | Derbyshire County Cricket Club seasons |
| Season: | 1960 |
| Comp1: | County Championship |
| Comp1 Result: | 5 |
| Most Runs: | Laurie Johnson |
| Most Wickets: | Les Jackson |
| Most Catches: | George Dawkes |
| Prevseason: | 1959 |
| Nextseason: | 1961 |
Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1960 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for eighty nine years. It was their fifty-sixth season in the County Championship and they won ten matches and lost ten to finish eighth in the County Championship.
Derbyshire played 28 games in the County Championship, one match against the touring South Africans, one match against Oxford University, and an extra match against Northamptonshire. They won ten matches, lost ten matches and drew eleven matches. Donald Carr was in his sixth year as captain. Laurie Johnson was top scorer and Les Jackson took most wickets for the club.
David Millner was the only player to make his first class debut in the Derbyshire team.
| List of matches | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Date | V | Result | Margin | Notes |
| 1 | 30 April 1960[1] | Northamptonshire | Lost | 5 wickets | |
| 2 | 7 May 1960[2] | South Africans | Lost | Innings and 24 runs | |
| 3 | 11 May 1960[3] | Middlesex | Drawn | ||
| 4 | 14 May 1960[4] | Somerset | Won | Innings and 68 runs | |
| 5 | 18 May 1960[5] | Glamorgan | Lost | 119 runs | |
| 6 | 21 May 1960[6] | Warwickshire | Won | Innings and 109 runs | |
| 7 | 25 May 1960[7] | Oxford University | Lost | 82 runs | |
| 8 | 28 May 1960[8] | Warwickshire | Lost | 13 runs | |
| 9 | 1 June 1960[9] | Gloucestershire | Lost | Innings and 51 runs | |
| 10 | 4 June 1960[10] | Northamptonshire | Drawn | ||
| 11 | 8 June 1960[11] | Yorkshire | Lost | 241 runs | |
| 12 | 11 June 1960[12] | Sussex | Drawn | ||
| 13 | 15 June 1960[13] | Lancashire | Lost | 222 runs | |
| 14 | 18 June 1960[14] | Worcestershire | Won | 8 wickets | |
| 15 | 25 June 1960[15] | Yorkshire | Lost | 58 runs | |
| 16 | 29 June 1960[16] | Essex | Drawn | ||
| 17 | 2 July 1960[17] | Leicestershire | Drawn | ||
| 18 | 9 July 1960[18] | Hampshire | Drawn | ||
| 19 | 13 July 1960[19] | Lancashire | Won | 60 runs | |
| 20 | 16 July 1960[20] | Leicestershire | Won | Innings and 41 runs | |
| 21 | 20 July 1960[21] | Surrey | Drawn | ||
| 22 | 23 July 1960[22] | Nottinghamshire | Won | 116 runs | |
| 23 | 27 July 1960[23] | Somerset | Drawn | ||
| 24 | 30 July 1960[24] | Northamptonshire | Lost | ||
| 25 | 3 August 1960[25] | Kent | Lost | 190 runs | |
| 26 | 6 August 1960[26] | Essex | Won | 46 runs | |
| 27 | 13 August 1960[27] | Nottinghamshire | Won | 9 wickets | |
| 28 | 17 August 1960[28] | Hampshire | Won | 6 wickets | |
| 29 | 20 August 1960[29] | Glamorgan | Drawn | ||
| 30 | 24 August 1960[30] | Worcestershire | Drawn | ||
| 31 | 27 August 1960[31] | Sussex | Drawn | ||
| Name | Matches | Inns | Runs | High score | Average | 100s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 50 | 1719 | 140 | 39.06 | 4 | |
| 22 | 38 | 1111 | 162* | 30.02 | 2 | |
| 26 | 44 | 1194 | 126 | 27.76 | 2 | |
| 26 | 46 | 1090 | 65 | 24.77 | 0 | |
| 9 | 17 | 412 | 68 | 24.23 | 0 | |
| 28 | 47 | 860 | 68* | 21.50 | 0 | |
| 7 | 12 | 248 | 71 | 20.66 | 0 | |
| 1 | 2 | 41 | 28 | 20.50 | 0 | |
| 24 | 40 | 573 | 75 | 16.85 | 0 | |
| 9 | 14 | 180 | 52 | 15.00 | 0 | |
| 6 | 10 | 146 | 86 | 14.60 | 0 | |
| 5 | 8 | 109 | 37 | 13.62 | 0 | |
| 10 | 16 | 176 | 49* | 12.57 | 0 | |
| 12 | 18 | 199 | 56 | 12.43 | 0 | |
| 7 | 13 | 150 | 63 | 11.53 | 0 | |
| 11 | 20 | 193 | 51 | 11.35 | 0 | |
| 7 | 10 | 97 | 22 | 9.70 | 0 | |
| 25 | 33 | 186 | 40 | 9.30 | 0 | |
| 18 | 22 | 134 | 25* | 7.88 | 0 | |
| 27 | 32 | 147 | 27 | 7.00 | 0 [32] | |
G Wyatt kept wicket against Oxford University
| Leading first-class batsmen for Derbyshire by runs scored | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Mat | Inns | Runs | HS | Ave | 100 |
| 31 | 56 | 1872 | 140 | 33.42 | 4 | |
| 31 | 50 | 1304 | 126 | 26.08 | 2 | |
| 25 | 44 | 1187 | 162* | 26.97 | 2 | |
| 28 | 50 | 1177 | 65 | 23.54 | 0 | |
| 30 | 51 | 964 | 68* | 18.90 | 0 | |
| Name | Balls | Runs | Wickets | BB | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5885 | 1965 | 146 | 8-44 | 13.45 | |
| 3477 | 1278 | 66 | 7-38 | 19.36 | |
| 3272 | 1166 | 63 | 5-18 | 18.50 | |
| 3751 | 1343 | 49 | 6-100 | 27.40 | |
| 1415 | 671 | 35 | 4-14 | 19.17 | |
| 1554 | 699 | 32 | 6-46 | 21.84 | |
| 1435 | 614 | 18 | 5-126 | 34.11 | |
| 723 | 324 | 11 | 3-32 | 29.45 | |
| 701 | 249 | 8 | 2-9 | 31.12 | |
| 264 | 106 | 4 | 2-25 | 26.50 | |
| 48 | 27 | 0 | |||
| 24 | 26 | 0 | |||
| 18 | 11 | 0 | |||
| 6 | 5 | 0 | [33] | ||
| Leading first class bowlers for Derbyshire by wickets taken | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | Ave |
| 6113 | 2034 | 150 | 8-44 | 13.56 | |
| 3832 | 1349 | 78 | 5-18 | 17.29 | |
| 3477 | 1278 | 66 | 7-38 | 19.36 | |
| 4441 | 1557 | 60 | 6-100 | 25.95 | |
| 1415 | 671 | 35 | 4-14 | 19.17 | |