| Club: | Derbyshire County Cricket Club seasons |
| Season: | 1983 |
| Captain: | Barry Wood |
| Comp1: | County Championship |
| Comp1 Result: | 9 |
| Comp2: | John Player Special League |
| Comp2 Result: | 6 |
| Comp3: | National Westminster Bank Trophy |
| Comp3 Result: | R2 |
| Comp4: | Benson & Hedges Cup. |
| Comp4 Result: | Group |
| Most Catches: | Bob Taylor |
| Prevseason: | 1982 |
| Nextseason: | 1984 |
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.
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.
| List of matches | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Date | V | Result | Margin | Notes |
| 1 | 30 Apr 1983[1] | Gloucestershire County Ground, Derby | Drawn | Stovold 181 | |
| 2 | 4 May 1983[2] | Leicestershire Grace Road, Leicester | Drawn | ||
| 3 | 11 May 1983[3] | Lancashire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Drawn | ||
| 4 | 28 May 1983[4] | Nottinghamshire Trent Bridge, Nottingham | Won | 6 wickets | Single innings match |
| 5 | 4 Jun 1983[5] | Hampshire County Ground, Derby | Drawn | C Smith 193; Jesty 187 Southern 5–60 | |
| 6 | 8 Jun 1983[6] | Middlesex Uxbridge Cricket Club Ground | Lost | 9 wickets | Butcher 179 |
| 7 | 11 Jun 1983[7] | Leicestershire County Ground, Derby | Lost | Innings and 4 runs | Ferris 5–29 |
| 8 | 15 Jun 1983[8] | Essex County Ground, Derby | Lost | Innings and 25 runs | McEwan 178 |
| 9 | 18 Jun 1983[9] | Somerset Recreation Ground, Bath | Won | 123 runs | OH Mortensen 5–43 |
| 10 | 22 Jun 1983[10] | Yorkshire Abbeydale Park, Sheffield | Won | 22 runs | Boycott 112; Carrick 5–45 and 7–44; OH Mortensen 6–27 and 5–62; DG Moir 5–114 |
| 11 | 25 Jun 1983[11] | Middlesex Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Lost | 9 wickets | Edmonds 6–38 |
| 12 | 2 Jul 1983[12] | Worcestershire County Ground, Derby | Won | 8 wickets | A Hill 137; |
| 13 | 9 Jul 1983[13] | Gloucestershire Phoenix County Ground, Bristol | Drawn | Childs 6–81 | |
| 14 | 13 Jul 1983[14] | Warwickshire Edgbaston, Birmingham | Won | 10 wickets | A Hill 121; Gifford 6–77; DG Moir 5–44; RJ Finney 5–58 |
| 15 | 16 Jul 1983[15] | Northamptonshire County Ground, Derby | Drawn | Larkins 236; KJ Barnett 103 | |
| 16 | 27 Jul 1983[16] | Hampshire United Services Recreation Ground, Portsmouth | Lost | 6 wickets | Nicholas 100; Tremlett 6–82 |
| 17 | 30 Jul 1983[17] | Kent Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Drawn | Aslett 168 and 119; IS Anderson 112; KJ Barnett 106 | |
| 18 | 6 Aug 1983[18] | Sussex The Saffrons, Eastbourne | Drawn | Pigott 6–22 | |
| 19 | 13 Aug 1983[19] | Somerset County Ground, Derby | Drawn | G Miller 5–71 | |
| 20 | 20 Aug 1983[20] | Glamorgan St Helen's, Swansea | Won | 2 wickets | Hopkins 109 |
| 21 | 24 Aug 1983[21] | Lancashire Stanley Park, Blackpool | Drawn | Simmons 101*; A Hill 106; Hayes 127; G Miller 5–98 | |
| 22 | 27 Aug 1983[22] | Yorkshire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Drawn | Boycott 169; Carrick 5–122; MA Holding 5–48 | |
| 23 | 7 Sep 1983[23] | Nottinghamshire County Ground, Derby | Won | 100 runs | Cooper 5–32; MA Holding 5–53 |
| 24 | 10 Sep 1983[24] | Surrey Kennington Oval | Drawn | KJ Barnett 121; A Hill 111; MA Holding 5–54 | |