Former Birmingham League batsman Rob Field and captain Tom Gleghorn together scored more than half of the 2,973 runs which enabled Barby to be crowned as the Warwickshire Cricket League's Division Three champions this summer.
Both hit unbeaten centuries with Field averaging a massive 127 per innings' after totalling 889 runs with six not outs. Gleghorn's 786 runs came at an average of 65.5.
Chris Fortnum was only seventh in the list with 140 runs but needs only another
750 to become the first batsman ever to make 20,000 runs for the Longdown Lane club.
On the bowling front newcomer Dave Watson led the way with 24 wickets at 14.37 apiece while sharing more than 100 league wickets with Stev Stipanovic, Phil Beagley and Tom Middleton.
Ground manager Don Lester remains the all-time top wicket-taker with 1,267 and his family feature prominently in the annual statistical analysis with son Craig (he's scored more 11,000 runs for Barby) doing the leg work while his mother Jan is the club scorer.
Craig's sister Kerry Norton was the Barby Ladies team's top scorer with 272 runs at an average of 90.67 after another record-breaking season in which the men's Saturday first team gained
a third successive Warwickshire
League promotion.
Other notable achievements in 2008 were Neil Chippington's 9,000th run for the club, Tom Gleghorn's 5,000th and 4,000
apiece for Field and Nigel Hancock. Lyndon Slasser also claimed his 200th wicket.
