| 1946 season | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Captain | Gilbert Hodgkinson | ||
| County Championship | 15 | ||
| Most runs | Denis Smith | ||
| Most wickets | Cliff Gladwin | ||
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Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1946 represents the first cricket season after a six-year break from first class cricket during World War II. The English club Derbyshire had been playing for seventy five years. It was their forty-second season in the County Championship and they won five matches and lost thirteen to finish fifteenth (two from bottom) in the County Championship.