Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1954
| 1954 season | |||
| Captain | Guy Willatt | ||
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| County Championship | 3 | ||
| Most runs | Arnold Hamer | ||
| Most wickets | Cliff Gladwin | ||
| Most catches | George Dawkes | ||
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Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1954 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for eighty-four years. It was their fiftieth season in the County Championship and they won eleven matches in the County Championship to finish in third place.
Derbyshire played 28 games in the County Championship, one match against Scotland, and one against the touring Pakistanis. In a successful season, they won twelve first class matches altogether. Guy Willatt was in his fourth season as captain. Arnold Hamer was top scorer and Cliff Gladwin took most wickets.
Two players made their debut in the season. Gerald Wyatt played one game and then appeared intermittently over the next few years. Charles Lee went on to score over 12,000 runs and became captain ten years later.
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