(1943-10-11)11 October 1943 Castle, St Peter, Barbados
Died
11 October 1996(1996-10-11) (aged 53) Speightstown, Barbados
Batting
Right-handed
Bowling
Right-arm fast-medium
International information
National side
West Indies
Test debut (cap 137)
19 March 1971 v India
Last Test
31 January 1976 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 1)
5 September 1973 v England
Last ODI
20 December 1975 v Australia
Domestic team information
Years
Team
1964–1975
Barbados
1966–1977
Essex
Career statistics
Competition
Tests
ODIs
FC
LA
Matches
21
8
285
165
Runs scored
657
57
8,800
2,441
Batting average
24.33
14.25
22.39
17.81
100s/50s
0/4
0/0
4/46
1/7
Top score
95*
34
147*
123
Balls bowled
3,501
470
44,087
7,841
Wickets
60
13
852
268
Bowling average
30.01
24.07
25.02
16.05
5 wickets in innings
2
0
35
3
10 wickets in match
1
0
7
0
Best bowling
6/77
4/50
9/61
8/26
Catches/stumpings
5/–
0/–
215/–
44/–
Medal record
Men's Cricket
Representing West Indies
ICC Cricket World Cup
Winner
1975 England
Source: Cricket Archive, 17 October 2010
Keith David Boyce (11 October 1943 – 11 October 1996) was a cricketer who played 21 Tests and 8 One Day Internationals for the West Indies between 1971 and 1976. He was a member of the squad that won the 1975 Cricket World Cup.
Boyce was the first man to take eight wickets in a List A match; he achieved the feat when he took 8–26 for Essex against Lancashire in 1971. No other player dismissed eight batsmen in a one-day innings until Kent's Derek Underwood claimed 8–31 against Scotland sixteen years later.[1]
Boyce's finest moment in Test cricket came in the First Test of the 1973 tour of England, when he scored 72, and took 5/70 and 6/77 in a 158-run victory. His highest Test score of 95 not out came in his penultimate Test, at Adelaide in January 1976.
Boyce had been recruited for Essex by Trevor Bailey. In the first innings of his Essex debut against Cambridge University in 1966 he took 9 for 61, which turned out to be the best bowling figures of his career. In that innings, Boyce's future West Indies teammate Deryck Murray scored 58 (not out) in the university's total of 127.[2] Boyce's highest innings of 147 not out came against Hampshire at Ilford in 1969.[3]
In 1974 Boyce was named one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year. Following an injury, he returned to his home island of Barbados, where he suffered several personal setbacks. He was married twice, and had two daughters.[4] He died from the effects of chronic cirrhosis of the liver, while sitting in a chair at a pharmacist's in Speightstown, Barbados, on his birthday on 11 October 1996.
^"Seven or More Wickets in a ListA Match". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 8 May 2010. Retrieved 3 June 2007.
^"Essex v Cambridge University 1966". Wisden. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
^"Essex v Hampshire 1969". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
^"Obituary: Keith Boyce", The Independent, 22 October 1996
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