John Dyke (6 January 1803 – 1 August 1885) was an English cricketer who played for Kent. He was born in Lullingstone and died in Sittingbourne.[1]
Dyke made a single first-class appearance for a Kent side in 1822, playing against MCC. Despite scoring a duck in the first innings of the match, he scored 35 runs in the second innings of the match, the second highest score of the innings.[2]
Dyke's brothers, Percyvall and Thomas, and nephew Edwin Dyke, all played first-class cricket, as well as his brother-in-law Herbert Jenner-Fust.
References
edit- ^ Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), p. 155. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
- ^ John Dyke, CricketArchive Retrieved 2022-08-16. (subscription required)