Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1963

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1963 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for ninety-two years. It was their fifty-ninth season in the County Championship and they won two championship matches and lost fourteen to finish seventeenth in the County Championship. It was the first season in which the Gillette Cup was played, and Derbyshire reached the quarter-finals.

1963 season
Derbyshire played 28 games in the County Championship, one match against the Pakistani Eaglets, one against the touring West Indies and one match against Cambridge University. They won three first class matches, lost fifteen matches and drew thirteen matches. They won their first round match in the Gillette Cup, but lost in the quarter-final. Charles Lee was captain and scored most runs. Harold Rhodes took most wickets for the club.

There were several new players in the Derbyshire team. Brian Jackson made a large contribution with his bowling over six seasons. John Harvey played for another ten years and John Eyre for five. Roger de Ville appeared twice in the season and once in the following season.

First Class
{| class="wikitable" width="100%" ! bgcolor="#efefef" colspan=6 | List of matches !No. !Date !V !Result !Margin !Notes | Surrey Kennington Oval | Innings and 6 runs | Gloucestershire County Ground, Derby | 4 wickets | Somerset Ind Coope Ground, Burton-on-Trent | Innings and 80 runs | Worcestershire Queen's Park, Chesterfield |  | Glamorgan St Helen's, Swansea |  | Essex Gidea Park Sports Ground, Romford | 80 runs | Warwickshire Edgbaston, Birmingham | 10 wickets | Northamptonshire County Ground, Derby | 4 wickets | Yorkshire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Innings and 56 runs | Lancashire Aigburth, Liverpool |  | Glamorgan Queen's Park, Chesterfield | 7 wickets | Leicestershire County Ground, Derby |  | Cambridge University  Ind Coope Ground, Burton-on-Trent |  |  Middlesex   Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston |  | Pakistan Eaglets County Ground, Derby | 8 wickets | Worcestershire  County Ground, New Road, Worcester | 101 runs | West Indies Queen's Park, Chesterfield | 135 runs | Nottinghamshire Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston |  | Sussex    Central Recreation Ground, Hastings | 13 runs | Northamptonshire County Ground, Northampton | Innings and 53 runs | Sussex   Queen's Park, Chesterfield |  | Warwickshire  County Ground, Derby | 9 wickets | Yorkshire Headingley, Leeds | 7 wickets | Somerset Clarence Park, Weston-super-Mare | 192 runs | Kent Cheriton Road Sports Ground, Folkestone |  | Lancashire Park Road Ground, Buxton |  | Surrey  County Ground, Derby |  | Hampshire  Queen's Park, Chesterfield | 144 runs | Nottinghamshire  Trent Bridge, Nottingham | 8 wickets | Leicestershire Grace Road, Leicester |  |  Middlesex    Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood |
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 * 1
 * 8 May 1963
 * 8 May 1963
 * bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost
 * Edrich 125
 * 2
 * 11 May 1963
 * 11 May 1963
 * bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost
 * Brown 6–48 and 7–48
 * 3
 * 15 May 1963
 * 15 May 1963
 * bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost
 * Wright 151
 * 4
 * 18 May 1963
 * 18 May 1963
 * bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn
 * Coldwell 6–43
 * 5
 * 25 May 1963
 * 25 May 1963
 * bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn
 * C Lee 104; Oates 99; Pressdee 6–58
 * 6
 * 29 May 1963
 * 29 May 1963
 * bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost
 * Knight 5–46
 * 7
 * 1 Jun 1963
 * 1 Jun 1963
 * bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost
 * Horner 102; Hitchcock 106; Barber 6–74
 * 8
 * 5 Jun 1963
 * 5 Jun 1963
 * bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost
 * IW Hall 136; HL Jackson 6–69
 * 9
 * 8 Jun 1963
 * 8 Jun 1963
 * bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost
 * Padgett 142; Sharpe 136; Nicholson 6–36
 * 10
 * 15 Jun 1963
 * 15 Jun 1963
 * bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn
 * Statham 5–45
 * 11
 * 19 Jun 1963
 * 19 Jun 1963
 * bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost
 * Shepherd 7–49
 * 12
 * 22 Jun 1963
 * 22 Jun 1963
 * bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn
 * 13
 * 29 Jun 1963
 * 13
 * 29 Jun 1963
 * bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn
 * Hutton 8–50
 * 14
 * 3 Jul 1963
 * 3 Jul 1963
 * bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn
 * Moss 5–47
 * 15
 * 6 Jul 1963
 * 6 Jul 1963
 * bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won
 * DC Morgan 113; Iqbal 5–103; AB Jackson 7–56
 * 16
 * 13 Jul 1963
 * 13 Jul 1963
 * bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost
 * Graveney 100; Flavell 6–46; HL Jackson 5–53
 * 17
 * 17 Jul 1963
 * 17 Jul 1963
 * bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost
 * 18
 * 20 Jul 1963
 * 18
 * 20 Jul 1963
 * bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn
 * Hill 134
 * 19
 * 24 Jul 1963
 * 24 Jul 1963
 * bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won
 * Snow 6–52; Thomson 7–31; HJ Rhodes 6–22
 * 20
 * 27 Jul 1963
 * 27 Jul 1963
 * bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost
 * Ramsamooj 132; Larter 5–62
 * 21
 * 31 Jul 1963
 * 31 Jul 1963
 * bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn
 * DB Carr 136
 * 22
 * 3 Aug 1963
 * 3 Aug 1963
 * bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost
 * M Smith 144; Edmonds 5–40
 * 23
 * 7 Aug 1963
 * 7 Aug 1963
 * bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost
 * 24
 * 10 Aug 1963
 * 24
 * 10 Aug 1963
 * bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost
 * Doughty 6–58 and 5–44
 * 25
 * 14 Aug 1963
 * 14 Aug 1963
 * bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn
 * Nicholls 211; Harvey 103
 * 26
 * 17 Aug 1963
 * 17 Aug 1963
 * bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn
 * Grieves 114; Statham 6–28
 * 27
 * 21 Aug 1963
 * 21 Aug 1963
 * bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn
 * Sydenham 5–31 and 6–47
 * 28
 * 24 Aug 1963
 * 24 Aug 1963
 * bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won
 * HJ Rhodes 5–41
 * 29
 * 28 Aug 1963
 * 28 Aug 1963
 * bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost
 * Bolus 136; Corran 5–55
 * 30
 * 31 Aug 1963
 * 31 Aug 1963
 * bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn
 * 31
 * 4 Sep 1963
 * 31
 * 4 Sep 1963
 * bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn

Gillette Cup
{| class="wikitable" width="70%" ! bgcolor="#efefef" colspan=6 | List of matches !No. !Date !V !Result !Margin !Notes |-
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 * 1st round
 * 22 May 1963
 * Hampshire Dean Park, Bournemouth
 * bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won
 * 6 runs
 * Quarter final
 * 12 Jun 1963
 * Lancashire Old Trafford, Manchester
 * bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost
 * 5 wickets
 * bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost
 * 5 wickets

Wicket Keeping

 * Bob Taylor
 * County Championship Catches 74, Stumping 2
 * Gillette Cup Catches 3, Stumping 0