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.
[3] His single game for MCC in 1866 was his most successful with the bat, with a score of 46 in the second innings.
[5] After graduation, Dyke was ordained in the Church of England; he was a curate at Crayford and West Wickham and then vicar at Orpington before moving to Maidstone from 1883 to 1896.
[5] From 1896 to 1916 he was rector of Mersham in Kent and he was an honorary canon of Canterbury Cathedral from 1892 to his death in 1919.