Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1997 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for one hundred and twenty-six years.
They came fourteenth in the AXA Life League and did not progress from the group in the National Westminster Bank Trophy.
Derbyshire played seventeen matches in the County Championship, one against Cambridge University, one against the touring Australians and one against the Pakistan A team.
Kim Barnett was top scorer although Chris Adams scored most runs in the one-day game including five centuries.
The team set two partnership records during the season - the second wicket partnership of 417 by Kim Barnett and Tim Tweats against Yorkshire and the third wicket partnership of 316* by Adrian Rollins and Kim Barnett against Leicestershire.