Toby Jones and the Timeless Cricket Match
Author: Michael Panckridge
Author: Brett Lee
Book 4 in the Toby Jones series
Pages: 189
Published: 2006
Age: 8+
It’s not just a game – it’s time travel – and this time it’s back to Lords.Toby Jones returns in another exciting story of time travel and cricket. Toby Jones is not your average cricket fan. It’s not his passion for the game that makes him unusual – it’s his ability to travel through time, back to the great matches of the past.Just when Toby thought his time-travel adventures were all over, he has to make another journey, and this time it’s going to be dangerous. With the help of his mentor and fellow time traveller Jim Oldfield, Toby must travel to the famous cricket ground Lords in England to visit Father Time so he can save his friend Ally. Ally is fading away since she met herself on a previous trip back through time.
Now it is truly a race against time to save her.
But where is the ruthless Phillip Smale? Will Phillip complicate the important task at hand?
About the Toby Jones Series
Books in series order
- 1.Toby Jones and the Magic Cricket Almanack(2003)
- 2.Toby Jones and the Secret of the Missing Scorecard(2004)
- 3.Toby Jones and the Mystery of the Time-Travel Tour(2005)
- 4.Toby Jones and the Timeless Cricket Match(2006)
- 5.Toby Jones and the Clash with Father Time(2008)
Reading age: 7+ years
The first in a series of time-slip books that take the reader back to famous cricket matches of the past. Toby Jones and his classmates go to the MCG archives on a school excursion and there they meet the old and wise caretaker at the library, Jim Oldfield. Jim is amazed when he realises that Toby has the gift – Toby can see numbers and words whirl on the pages of old Wisdens, which means that he has the potential to travel back in time to cricket matches.
This unique gift means that Toby and his cricket-team friends – 12-year-old boys and girls who love the game on and off the field – have a time portal that opens them to adventure centred on their beloved game of cricket.
This series is written in conjunction with cricket legend, Brett Lee.