After being selected for the Australian Chairman's XI team for a match against the visiting 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.
"[4] In the Big Bash League (BBL), Boyce played first for the South Australian-based Adelaide Strikers in the 2012–13 season, then for the Tasmanian-based Hobart Hurricanes from 2014 onwards.
[5] Boyce made his Twenty20 International (T20I) debut for Australia against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates in October 2014.
[8] Boyce performed well for the Hobart Hurricanes in the 2015–16 BBL season, where he bowled primarily in the middle overs of the game and consistently took wickets.
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.