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.

Keith Boyce

Personal information
Full name	Keith David Boyce
Born	(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

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.