Cameron Boyce (cricketer)

{{short description|Australian cricketer (born 1989)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}} {{Use Australian English|date=January 2020}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Cameron Boyce | fullname = Cameron John Boyce | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1989|7|27|df=yes}} | birth_place = {{nowrap|[[Charleville, Queensland]], Australia}} | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm [[leg break]] | role = [[Bowler (cricket)|Bowler]] | international = true | internationalspan = 2014–2016 | country = Australia | T20Idebutdate = 5 October | T20Idebutyear = 2014 | T20Idebutagainst = Pakistan | lastT20Idate = 31 January | lastT20Iyear = 2016 | lastT20Iagainst = India | club1 = [[Queensland cricket team|Queensland]] | year1 = {{nowrap|2009/10–2015/16}} | club2 = [[Adelaide Strikers]] | year2 = 2012/13, 2022/23–present | club3 = [[Hobart Hurricanes]] | year3 = {{nowrap|2014/15–2017/18}} | club4 = [[Tasmania cricket team|Tasmania]] | year4 = {{nowrap|2016/17–2017/18}} | club5 = [[Melbourne Renegades]] | year5 = {{nowrap|2018/19–2021/22}} | columns = 4 | column1 = [[Twenty20 International|T20I]] | matches1 = 7 | runs1 = 4 | bat avg1 = 4.00 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 3 | deliveries1 = 138 | wickets1 = 8 | bowl avg1 = 19.00 | fivefor1 = 0 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = 2/10 | catches/stumpings1 = 0/–

| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/326625.html ESPNcricinfo | date = 29 January 2025 |image=}} '''Cameron John Boyce''' (born 27 July 1989) is an Australian [[cricket]]er. He is a right-arm [[leg break]] bowler who has played for several domestic teams in Australia and has appeared in seven [[Twenty20 International|T20I]] matches for the [[Australia cricket team|Australian cricket team]].

Boyce began playing cricket for his home state of [[Queensland cricket team|Queensland]] in the 2009/10 summer. He was dropped from Queensland's team and moved to Tasmania in 2016, before being dropped again by Tasmania in 2018. He has also played in the [[Big Bash League]] (BBL) for the [[Adelaide Strikers]], the [[Hobart Hurricanes]], and the [[Melbourne Renegades]], winning the competition with the Renegades in the [[2018–19 Big Bash League season|2018–19 season]].

==Early life and career== Boyce was born in the western [[Queensland]] town of [[Charleville, Queensland|Charleville]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cricinfo.com/ausdomestic-09/content/current/player/326625.html|title=Cameron Boyce|publisher=[[ESPNcricinfo]]|accessdate=20 March 2010|archive-date=21 April 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100421215041/http://www.cricinfo.com/ausdomestic-09/content/current/player/326625.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Before moving to [[Tasmania]], Boyce played senior cricket for [[Toombul District Cricket Club]] in [[Brisbane]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.couriermail.com.au/questnews/north/toombul-legspinner-cameron-boyce-considering-interstate-move-after-queensland-bulls-snubbing/news-story/f33a821b16947a1e9875b142e3c75f78|title=Bulls discard weighing up future|work=[[The Courier-Mail]]|date=19 March 2016|author=O'Neill, Brent|access-date=1 July 2021|archive-date=14 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200414034648/https://www.couriermail.com.au/questnews/north/toombul-legspinner-cameron-boyce-considering-interstate-move-after-queensland-bulls-snubbing/news-story/f33a821b16947a1e9875b142e3c75f78|url-status=live}}</ref>

Boyce made his debut for Queensland against [[Western Warriors|Western Australia]] at [[the Gabba]] in March 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url-access=subscription|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/255/255874.html|title=Queensland v Western Australia: Sheffield Shield 2009/10|publisher=[[CricketArchive]]|accessdate=20 March 2010|archive-date=4 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604213102/http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/255/255874.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The following week he played in the season's [[2009–10 Sheffield Shield season#Final|Sheffield Shield Final]]. Queensland lost, but Boyce took six wickets in [[Victorian Bushrangers|Victoria]]'s second innings. After being selected for the Australian Chairman's XI team for a match against the visiting [[Indian national cricket team|Indians]] in [[Canberra]] in 2011, former Test spinner [[Ashley Mallett]] claimed that Boyce was the best leg spinner he had seen in first class cricket since [[Shane Warne]], saying Boyce had "definitely got the potential to play Test cricket."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/cricket/spin-great-ashley-mallett-backs-bulls-young-gun-cameron-boyce-to-be-the-man/story-fn67x93d-1226224755717|title=Spin great Ashley Mallett backs Bulls young gun Cameron Boyce to be the man|last=Badel|first=Peter|date=18 December 2011|work=[[The Courier-Mail]]|accessdate=7 January 2012}}</ref>

In the [[Big Bash League]] (BBL), Boyce played first for the [[South Australia]]n-based [[Adelaide Strikers]] in the [[2012–13 Big Bash League season|2012–13 season]], then for the [[Tasmania]]n-based [[Hobart Hurricanes]] from 2014 onwards. He was dropped from the Queensland squad at the end of the 2015/16 season and moved to Tasmania to play for [[Tasmania cricket team|their state team]].<ref name="atones">{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/renegade-boyce-atones-for-unceremonious-hurricanes-exit-1175148|title=Renegade Boyce atones for unceremonious Hurricanes exit|last=Brettig|first=Daniel|date=17 February 2019|access-date=22 December 2022|website=ESPNcricinfo|archive-date=22 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221222034503/https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/renegade-boyce-atones-for-unceremonious-hurricanes-exit-1175148|url-status=live}}</ref>

==International career==

Boyce made his [[Twenty20 International]] (T20I) debut for Australia [[Australian cricket team against Pakistan in the UAE in 2014–15|against Pakistan]] in the [[United Arab Emirates]] in October 2014. He took two wickets for ten runs in a low-scoring game.<ref name="T20I">{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/727917.html |title=Australia tour of United Arab Emirates, Only T20I: Pakistan v Australia at Dubai (DSC) |accessdate=5 October 2014 |publisher=[[ESPNcricinfo]] |archive-date=10 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170710185234/http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/727917.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Boyce played in the T20I match between [[Australian cricket team in England and Ireland in 2015|England and Australia]] in [[Cardiff]] on 31 August 2015. He flew in from [[Brisbane]] for the one-off match, where he bowled one over and was not required to bat.<ref name="Roundtrip">{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/the-ashes-2015/content/story/916209.html |title=Watson's missed kick, Boyce's fruitless journey |accessdate=1 September 2015 |publisher=[[ESPNcricinfo]] |archive-date=1 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150901194509/http://www.espncricinfo.com/the-ashes-2015/content/story/916209.html |url-status=live }}</ref> This was Boyce's fifth T20I in a row for Australia, meaning he had played in every T20I the team had played since the [[2014 ICC World Twenty20]].<ref name="whirl">{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/boyce-holds-his-own-in-big-bash-whirl-960345|title=Boyce holds his own in Big Bash whirl|last=Macpherson|first=Will|date=11 January 2016|access-date=22 December 2022|website=ESPNcricinfo|archive-date=22 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221222033854/https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/boyce-holds-his-own-in-big-bash-whirl-960345|url-status=live}}</ref> Boyce also played for [[Australia A cricket team|Australia A]] during the 2015 off-season, when the team toured India.<ref name="whirl"/>

Boyce performed well for the [[Hobart Hurricanes]] in the [[2015–16 Big Bash League season|2015–16 BBL season]], where he bowled primarily in the middle overs of the game and consistently took wickets. As a result of his performances for both Australia and the Hurricanes, as well as his experience playing in India, he was included in Australia's squad for the [[2016 ICC World Twenty20]] in India as one of the team's two spin bowlers alongside [[Nathan Lyon]].<ref name="whirl"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/tait-recalled-lyon-gets-world-t20-audition-963153|title=Tait recalled, Lyon gets World T20 audition|last=Coverdale|first=Brydon|date=17 January 2016|access-date=22 December 2022|website=ESPNcricinfo|archive-date=15 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221215204311/https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/tait-recalled-lyon-gets-world-t20-audition-963153|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Later cricket career== Boyce played well for Tasmania in [[Australian domestic limited-overs cricket tournament|one-day competitions]], After playing in every match of the regular season, he was dropped from the team and didn't play in the finals. His contracts with Tasmania and the Hurricanes were not renewed at the end of the season and he moved back to Brisbane.<ref name="atones"/>

On 8 June 2018, it was announced that Boyce had signed a two-year deal for the [[Melbourne Renegades]] in the BBL. His [[2018–19 Big Bash League season|first season]] with the Renegades was successful. He played for the team in the season final, where he took the two wickets of the [[Melbourne Stars]]' opening batters, starting a catastrophic batting collapse that led to a Renegades win.<ref name="atones"/> On 19 January 2022, in the [[2021–22 Big Bash League season|2021–22 BBL season]], Boyce became the first bowler to take four wickets in four consecutive deliveries in the BBL.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/big-bash-league-2021-22-1269637/sydney-thunder-vs-melbourne-renegades-55th-match-1269694/match-report |title=Cameron Boyce hat-trick in vain as Sydney Thunder snatch win by one run |work=ESPN Cricinfo |access-date=19 January 2022 |archive-date=19 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220119110441/https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/big-bash-league-2021-22-1269637/sydney-thunder-vs-melbourne-renegades-55th-match-1269694/match-report |url-status=live }}</ref>

Boyce returned to the Adelaide Strikers, his first BBL team, for the [[2022–23 Big Bash League season|2022–23 BBL season]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/bbl-news-cameron-boyce-returns-to-adelaide-strikers-1327148|title=Cameron Boyce returns to Adelaide Strikers|date=2 August 2022|access-date=22 December 2022|website=ESPNcricinfo|archive-date=22 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221222035748/https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/bbl-news-cameron-boyce-returns-to-adelaide-strikers-1327148|url-status=live}}</ref>

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