| Club: | Derbyshire County Cricket Club seasons |
| Season: | 1968 |
| Captain: | Derek Morgan |
| Comp1: | County Championship |
| Comp1 Result: | 8 |
| Comp3: | Gillette Cup |
| Comp3 Result: | Round 2 |
| Most Runs: | David Smith |
| Prevseason: | 1967 |
| Nextseason: | 1969 |
Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1968 represents the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for ninety-seven years. In the County Championship, they won six matches to finish eighth in their sixty-fourth season in the Championship. They were eliminated in round 2 of the Gillette Cup.
Derbyshire played 28 games in the County Championship, one match against Cambridge University, and one against the touring Australians. They won six first class matches altogether. Derek Morgan was in his fourth season as captain and was top scorer. Harold Rhodes took most wickets.
| List of matches | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Date | V | Result | Margin | Notes |
| 1 | 1 May 1968[1] | Middlesex | Drawn | ||
| 2 | 8 May 1968[2] | Cambridge University | Drawn | ||
| 3 | 11 May 1968[3] | Kent | Drawn | ||
| 4 | 15 May 1968[4] | Surrey | Drawn | ||
| 5 | 19 May 1968[5] | Warwickshire | Drawn | ||
| 6 | 22 May 1968[6] | Sussex | Won | 5 wickets | |
| 7 | 29 May 1968[7] | Sussex | Drawn | ||
| 8 | 01 Jun 1968[8] | Northamptonshire | Drawn | ||
| 9 | 05 Jun 1968[9] | Worcestershire | Won | 21 runs | |
| 10 | 08 Jun 1968[10] | Northamptonshire | Drawn | ||
| 11 | 12 Jun 1968[11] | Lancashire | Drawn | ||
| 12 | 15 Jun 1968[12] | Nottinghamshire | Lost | 3 wickets | |
| 13 | 19 Jun 1968[13] | Worcestershire | Won | Innings and 110 runs | |
| 14 | 22 Jun 1968[14] | Warwickshire | Drawn | ||
| 15 | 29 Jun 1968[15] | Gloucestershire | Won | 9 wickets | |
| 16 | 06 Jul 1968[16] | Essex | Drawn | ||
| 17 | 10 Jul 1968[17] | Somerset | Abandoned | ||
| 18 | 17 Jul 1968[18] | Lancashire | Lost | 124 runs | |
| 19 | 20 Jul 1968[19] | Nottinghamshire | Lost | 6 wickets | |
| 20 | 24 Jul 1968[20] | Surrey | Lost | 3 wickets | |
| 21 | 27 Jul 1968[21] | Leicestershire | Drawn | ||
| 22 | 31 Jul 1968[22] | Australian cricket team in England in 1968 | Lost | 8 runs | |
| 23 | 03 Aug 1968[23] | Leicestershire | Drawn | ||
| 24 | 10 Aug 1968[24] | Somerset | Won | 2 wickets | |
| 25 | 14 Aug 1968[25] | Glamorgan | Drawn | ||
| 26 | 17 Aug 1968[26] | Yorkshire | Drawn | ||
| 27 | 21 Aug 1968[27] | Middlesex | Lost | 6 wickets | |
| 28 | 24 Aug 1968[28] | Yorkshire | Drawn | ||
| 29 | 28 Aug 1968[29] | Glamorgan | Won | 100 runs | |
| 30 | 31 Aug 1968[30] | Hampshire | Drawn | ||
| Name | County Championship | Gillette Cup | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | I | Runs | HS | Ave | 100 | M | I | Runs | HS | Ave | 100 | ||
| 25 | 41 | 992 | 87 | 26.10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5.00 | 0 | ||
| 1 | 1 | 18 | 18 | 18.00 | 0 | ||||||||
| 26 | 35 | 598 | 89 | 22.14 | 0 | ||||||||
| 27 | 48 | 1259 | 90 | 27.36 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3.00 | 0 | ||
| 4 | 6 | 144 | 68 | 24.00 | 0 | ||||||||
| 27 | 42 | 1006 | 74* | 30.48 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3.00 | 0 | ||
| 19 | 13 | 37 | 10 | 6.16 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3* | 0 | |||
| 6 | 8 | 123 | 39 | 15.37 | 0 | ||||||||
| 21 | 34 | 955 | 103* | 39.79 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2.00 | 0 | ||
| 24 | 44 | 1195 | 117 | 30.64 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3.00 | 0 | ||
| 26 | 25 | 125 | 23 | 8.92 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 15 | 15.00 | 0 | ||
| 8 | 7 | 41 | 17* | 6.83 | 0 | ||||||||
| 27 | 48 | 1347 | 117 | 29.93 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 32 | 32 | 32.00 | 0 | ||
| 25 | 29 | 401 | 41* | 18.22 | 0 | ||||||||
| 2 | 4 | 41 | 19 | 10.25 | 0 | ||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 4 | 4* | 0 | |||||||||
| 25 | 30 | 334 | 52 | 14.52 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 0 | ||
| 4 | 3 | 1 | 1* | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0[32] [33] | |||
| Name | County Championship | Gillette Cup | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balls | Runs | Wkts | Best | Ave | Balls | Runs | Wkts | Best | Ave | |
| 2023 | 626 | 33 | 6-25 | 18.96 2 | 53 | 27 | 0 | |||
| 42 | 15 | 0 | ||||||||
| 2969 | 1438 | 45 | 5-31 | 31.95 2 | ||||||
| 149 | 77 | 2 | 2-54 | 38.50 | ||||||
| 36 | 17 | 0 | ||||||||
| 2738 | 987 | 46 | 4-27 | 21.45 | 18 | 3 | 0 | |||
| 2001 | 694 | 27 | 4-33 | 25.70 | 59 | 20 | 0 | |||
| 4308 | 1564 | 93 | 6-25 | 16.81 4 | 72 | 24 | 0 | |||
| 1272 | 489 | 16 | 5-50 | 30.56 1 | ||||||
| 5136 | 1899 | 80 | 6-57 | 23.73 7 | ||||||
| 180 | 54 | 4 | 2-10 | 13.50 | ||||||
| 701 | 308 | 26 | 6-56 | 11.84 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | [34] [35] | ||
County Championship Catches 50, Stumping 7
Gillette Cup Catches 0, Stumping 0