Keith Boyce

Keith Boyce
Personal information
Full name Keith David Boyce
Born 11 October 1943
Castle, St Peter, Barbados
Died 11 October 1996 (aged 53)
Bridgetown, Barbados
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
International information
National side
Test debut 19 March 1971 v India
Last Test 31 January 1976 v Australia
ODI debut 5 September 1973 v England
Last ODI 20 December 1975 v Australia
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
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/–
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 died from the effects of chronic cirrhosis of the liver while sitting in a chair at a pharmacist's in Speightstown, Barbados in 1996.

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]

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