Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1976
Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1976 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for one hundred and five years. In the County Championship, they won four matches to finish fifteenth in their seventy second season in the Championship. They came twelfth in the John Player League and reached the quarter-final of the Gillette Cup. They were eliminated at group level in the Benson & Hedges Cup. 1976 season. Derbyshire played twenty matches in the County Championship, one each against Oxford and Cambridge University and one against the touring West  Indians. They won six first class matches overall but two of these were against the universities when Phil Sharpe clocked up a century and a double century. Derbyshire won seven and lost nine matches in the Sunday league. Bob Taylor was in his second season as captain. Eddie Barlow was top scorer overall in the Championship and one competitions although Alan Hill was top scorer in the championship alone. Geoff Miller took most wickets. Matches. Wicket Keeping. Bob Taylor