Edwin Dyke

Edwin Francis Dyke (27 September 1842 – 26 August 1919) was an English clergyman and cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University in 1864 and 1865 and for Marylebone Cricket Club in 1866.^[1] He was born in London and died at Maidstone, Kent.

As a cricketer, Dyke was a right-handed lower-order batsman and a left-arm medium pace bowler. It was as a bowler that he made an immediate impression in his only first-class match of 1864: he took 10 Marylebone Cricket Club wickets for 41 runs in the game, including 6 for 14 in the second innings.^[2] He was unable to repeat this success in four first-class games for Cambridge in 1865: these included the University match against Oxford University in which he took a single wicket and failed to score in either innings.^[3] His single game for MCC in 1866 was his most successful with the bat, with a score of 46 in the second innings.^[4]