{{Short description|Barbadian cricketer (1944–2022)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Darnley Boxill | image = | fullname = Darnley Da Costa Boxill | birth_date = {{birth date|1944|10|2|df=yes}} | birth_place = Christ Church, Barbados | death_date = {{death date and age|2022|10|10|1944|10|2|df=yes}} | death_place = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = | role = Wicket-keeper
| club1 = Barbados cricket team | year1 = 1964 to 1972 | clubnumber1 = | columns = 2 | hidedeliveries = true | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 15 | runs1 = 149 | bat avg1 = 8.27 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 38 | catches/stumpings1 = 28/14 | column2 = List A | matches2 = 2 | runs2 = 2 | bat avg2 = 2.00 | 100s/50s2 = 0/0 | top score2 = 2 | catches/stumpings2 = 5/– | date = 1 July 2021 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/51376.html Cricinfo }} '''Darnley Da Costa Boxill''' (2 October 1944 – 10 October 2022) was a Barbadian cricketer. As a wicket-keeper, he played in 15 first-class matches for the Barbados cricket team from 1964 to 1972.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/51376.html |title=Darnley Boxill |work=ESPN Cricinfo |accessdate=11 November 2020}}</ref>
Boxill was an accountant. In the early 1990s he invented and developed a cricket scoring system that enabled computerised ball-by-ball analysis of each player's performances.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Who Needs Scorers? |journal=Notchers News |date=December 2008 |page=3 |url=http://www.notchers.co.uk/cont/Notchers03.pdf}}</ref>
Boxill died in October 2022, at the age of 78.<ref>{{cite web |title=Former Barbados wicket-keeper Darnley Boxill dies at 78 |url=https://barbadoscricket.org/former-barbados-wicket-keeper-darnley-boxill-dies-at-78/ |website=Barbados Cricket Association |access-date=24 October 2025}}</ref>
==See also== * List of Barbadian representative cricketers
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==External links== * {{cricinfo|id=51376}}
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