Have cricket card sales dried up to a near stand still?

[BoondasH1]

Upper Deck's first cricket card?:

2011 UD Goodwin Champions W.G. GRACE SP #187 | eBay

Anyone seen this documentary, Fire in Babylon? Well worth watching.
Fire in Babylon (2010) - IMDb

 

[rishgoon]

Sent Futera an email regarding their cricket release. Not good news for the short term unfortunately:

We were intending to release Cricket this year - but meantime we've been asked to
release a children's product (not cricket unfortunately!) before Christmas, and so
this is probably going to bump the Cricket onto some time in 2013. It takes a long
time to source the memorabilia and special elements particularly for a sports
collection such as cricket, and we want to spend some more time on that before a
release.

At least they'll do it properly. Bit of a wait though

 

[BLOWN8]

Sent Futera an email regarding their cricket release. Not good news for the short term unfortunately:



At least they'll do it properly. Bit of a wait though

thats really good news and really bad news all at the same time lol

 

[ooneil]

So does that mean Futera are going to re-enter the Australian market?

 

[Wheeldude]

I reckon Select did a great job when they did stuff for cricket but it probably wasn't profitable for them to continue releasing cricket sets because of little demand. There are definately more AFL and NRL card collectors out there which is quite a shame really because they were nice sets.

I must say the Goldie attempt at a cricket release was a little disappointing but well done to them for giving it a shot. I haven't been bothered completing my set...must get around to it next holidays...

 

[Tricolour]

Although AFL is my favourite sport I think Cricket cards are just as good to collect. I really likes the last series (09/10?).
Hopefully with the new big bash league starting in December Select or someone else releases Cricket cards. Even if a smaller company released a smaller collection just for the big bash league.

 

[nazimcricket]

Upper Deck's first cricket card?:

2011 UD Goodwin Champions W.G. GRACE SP #187 | eBay

Anyone seen this documentary, Fire in Babylon? Well worth watching.
Fire in Babylon (2010) - IMDb

That's an interesting card.

I watched Fire in Babylon a couple of weeks ago. Great programme!