Derbyshire played twenty games in the County Championship, one match against MCC and one against the touring Australians.
Levi Wright was top scorer with over 1700 runs and four centuries and Billy Bestwick took most wickets with over 100.
However lacking greater depth, Derbyshire won just three matches in the County Championship and lost 16 which put them at fourteenth in the table.
Also making their debuts were Frederic Hunter who played regularly for three years and Herbert Cooper William Taylor and Robert Carlin who played intermittently over five years.
Arthur Hogg, John McDonald and George Walkden played in 1905 and also in 1906.