Matthew Boyce

Squad Number - 11

Player Sponsor - William Freer www.williamfreer.co.uk

Born - Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, August 13, 1985

Joined - Leicestershire 2005

Role - Left Hand Opening Batsman

Family -

Teams Represented - Leicestershire

Honours - Daily Mail Cup winner while at Twickenham playing rugby for Oakham School, FL t20 title with Leicestershire

Highlight of Career - First-class debut and one-day debut. Scoring a double century and playing for England Development Squad against Bangladesh in 2004

Players Admired - Justin Langer, Graham Thorpe, Mark Ramprakash, Paul Nixon

Relaxations - Relaxing in general!

A calm and unflustered left-handed opening batsman, Matthew Boyce has been a virtual ever-present at the top of the Leicestershire order in Championship cricket after making his breakthrough at the start of 2008.

Boyce enjoyed a profitable LV=CC campaign in 2011. The batsman scored two centuries and his haul of 815 first-class runs placed him third in the leading scorers for the season behind James Taylor and Will Jefferson.

Boyce also made important contributions in one-day cricket, most notably when taking four catches off Josh Cobb’s bowling after fielding as a substitute in the Friends Life t20 final against Somerset.

It was not the first time that Boyce had shone as a substitute at Edgbaston, for in 2010, he came on and initiated three run outs during an important win against Warwickshire Bears,

Those contributions sum up Boyce’s excellent attitude towards the game. Rather than being disappointed at not playing on Finals Day, Boyce was ready to do a job for the team.

Boyce was rarely called on to bat during the t20 competition but hit the winning runs in the one opportunity he had against Kent and saved plenty of runs with his razor-sharp fielding.

Boyce’s most memorable knock in 2010 was an unbeaten score of 86* against Derbyshire as he and Greg Smith knocked off a target of 169 without loss.

The batsman also made a score of 192 against MCC Young Cricketers at Radlett in the Second XI and that won the Livingston Cup award for best individual performance in the 2s. Boyce captained the First XI when Matthew Hoggard was injured after previous leading the team in 2009.

The Cheltenham-born batsman was handed his first team debut in 2006 and the 2008 season was his first full year at the Club after completing his undergraduate degree in Management and Economics at Nottingham University.

He started in style; Boyce made back-to-back half centuries in the first game against Middlesex and registered his maiden first-class ton at Edgbaston in the next match. He went onto become the third highest run-scorer in the Championship behind HD Ackerman and Paul Nixon.

Boyce's career record at Leics:

MAG Boyce 2011 (93.87 kB)