However many of the players competed for the club earlier or subsequently at first-class level.
Derbyshire played sixteen games and apart from two against Cheshire and one against MCC, these were all against future clubs in the County Championship or the touring Australians.
They won seven matches and lost six, which was a sufficient prelude to their return to first-class status in the following 1894 season.
William Taylor noted that during Derbyshire's period in exile many fine players wore their colours including S H Evershed, who in captained the eleven with marked ability for many years and the grand veteran, Levi Wright - "a magnificent batsman and unsurpassed as a fieldsman in the oldfashioned position of square-point".
[1] Frank Mycroft made his debut in the season, standing in as wicket-keeper for William Storer who also played for MCC and other teams.