| 1897 season | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Captain | Sydney Evershed | ||
| County Championship | 14 | ||
| Most runs | Levi Wright | ||
| Most wickets | George Davidson | ||
| Most catches | William Storer | ||
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Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1897 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for twenty-six years. It was their third season in the County Championship and they came fourteenth after failing to win a match, though they were exceptionally unlucky in losing by a single wicket to power clubs Lancashire and Yorkshire and being robbed by time of victory over Leicestershire late in the season.