John Dykes

John Dykes is a sports broadcaster and the lead anchor for the Premier League's content service, available to international broadcast partners. He first made his name in Asia after working for almost a decade as host of ESPN STAR Sports' coverage of the Premier League and European football. He is now a familiar face worldwide and anchored the Africa-wide coverage of the 2014 FIFA World Cup for SuperSport TV.

Dykes was born in Essex, England in 1964, went to Brentwood School before moving to Hong Kong with his family.

He began his media career as a college radio DJ whilst studying English Literature at Warwick University. A move to Hong Kong led to a successful stint at the South China Morning Post, where he was a Sports Writer, Feature Writer and Entertainment Editor for the Sunday Edition. During his time in Hong Kong, he also covered both sports and entertainment beats as a showbiz presenter at TVB. He hosted TVB's live coverage of the Academy Awards for five straight years before switching back to sports as a football commentator and presenter with STAR Sports.

At the start of his career at ESPN STAR in Singapore, Dykes hosted tournaments across diverse sports such as tennis, golf, cricket and rugby. Highlights of his time with ESPN STAR Sports include his anchoring the broadcast of cricket's 1999 World Cup in England, trips to Wimbledon and Flushing Meadows to work alongside Vijay Amritraj on Grand Slam tennis, and his work in Augusta for Tiger Woods' triumph at the 2001 Masters. Over the years, he has been the host of Inside Cricket and The Formula One pre-show, Raceday, as well as launching Sportsline - the predecessor to SportsCenter - in India.

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