The early 80’s saw a further period of rebuilding and several mid table positions. Stalwarts Godfrey Lamb, Peter Radburn and Bryan Cowley were joined by a number of good cricketers from local clubs. David Stephens from Chaddesley Corbett, Damian Jones from Quatt, Geoff Parry from Bromsgrove and Horace Palmer from Stourbridge all made an impression. Delvin King followed in his father’s footsteps making useful runs in the top order and offered some steady slow left arm bowling. Four young teachers from Worcester, Mike Wilkinson, Peter Iddon, Mervyn Brooker and Frank Watson proved to be great signings.

In 1984 the side received an unexpected but incredible boost when they took on a young 17 year old Zimbabwean, Graeme Hick, who had joined Worcestershire on a scholarship. It didn’t take long for his team mates and opposition bowlers to realise that he was something special. He batted with power and freedom scoring his runs very quickly with a high proportion of boundaries. Many experienced ex-professional bowlers found him very difficult to contain. Graeme went on to break all batting records for the 1st XI making 1234 runs in the season which is the fourth highest batting total in the history of the League in spite of missing some games when he was called up for the County team. Against Moseley he scored 182* in a record score of 309 for 4 and shared in a large stand of over 200 with Mike Wilkinson who made 83.

There were many mid-table finishes in the eighties. Their best performance was in the “Hick” year of 1984 when the team led the table going into the last match. Hick was called up by Worcestershire, the match against Worcester ended in a draw, and Kidderminster ended up third.

In 1981 Dean Johnston plays his final season for Kidderminster in the 3rdXI and they win the Division. This completes an almost unique record of playing in a championship winning side in all three divisions (1952 First Division, 1953 Second Division with M & B).

During the eighties the seam attack was made up mainly from local club cricketers who proved to be very effective. Brian Cowley was steady and accurate. Geoff Parry, Horace Palmer and Nick Husbands gave good support. Mervyn Brooker, a Cambridge Blue, bowled his outswingers with incredible control and at a brisk pace. The slip fielders were always in the action. He took 53 wickets in the 1987 season. Paul Humphries joined in 1986 and proved to be a handful with his pace and bounce. He also took over 50 wickets in a season, in 1989, which is a rare feat in recent times. All-rounder and stalwart, Peter Radburn, contributed with useful wickets and developed a skill for bowling effective “yorkers” at the end of an innings and in Knock-out matches. His aggressive, unorthodox batting produced many explosive innings and lots of sixes. He captained the 1st XI for 7 years from 1981. The decade was very successful for the club in Knock-Out cricket and several trophies were won.

David Stephens, Mark Sedgley, Mike Wilkinson and Brian Pinner made solid scores at the top of the order but the outstanding batsman of the decade was Godfrey Lamb. Not only was Godfrey a high quality wicket keeper, who many have said, could have easily played County Cricket but was a prolific batsman. In 1985 he scored 730 first division runs and beat it in 1986 with 800 runs batting in the middle order. Only Graeme Hick (1234 in 1984) and Peter Harris (867 in 1967) have done better in the history of the club.

Young County Professional, David Leatherdale played for the club in 1987 and 1988 and Paul Pridgeon, a more experienced County bowler played in 1989. Steve McEwan played for KCC for two years before he broke into the County side in 1985.

County Cricket returned to Chester Road in 1987 after a break of 12 years. In a memorable match Worcestershire managed to beat Nottinghamshire to inflict their only defeat of the season. Clive Rice and Richard Hadley making significant contributions. The Chester Road pitch was excellent and attracted many compliments which were to be repeated in future annual county fixtures. Harold “Dicky” Bird, who umpired at Kidderminster on several occasions, often quoted Kidderminster as “one of the best pitches on the circuit”. Nasser Hussain arrived at Chester Road the day after a Test Match and proclaimed that it was a better pitch than the one he had just spent 5 days on. The groundsman, Denis Jones was recognised by ECB and was awarded the “Outground of the Year award” in 1999 and several “Commendations” over the years.