Card Identification Forum

I bought this in August 2024 from alphaomegaphilately on eBay.  No idea what it is, except that a) stats suggest sometime in 2013, b) stock suggests Indian origin, and c) seller seems to have most of the set available if a checklist proves desirable.

Any ideas?

Hi, this looks like a playing card  - read the following link https://www.tcdb.com/FAQ.cfm?ITEM=PlayingCards to see if the set is capable of being listed on the site.

As for being Indian, I am not so sure. The team crest (beside his head shot) is for the West Indies Cricket team. In most international sports each country represents itself ... Cricket is different (also Lacrosse but that's for another day). So the West Indies team selects the best players from Anglophone Caribbean nations that are too small to field a competitive team at the world cup or these 1 or 3 day Test matches. Players are selected from, but not necessarily limited to - Antigua , Bahamas , Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St, Kitts, St. Lucia, Trinidad & Tobago.  

That being said it very well could be from a ODI (One Day International) match between India & the West Indies. If you are able to scan another card for a player from the other team it would help.   

Looks like his ODI stats through July 2013.  His next ODI was in November 2013.

Here's the seller's other cards from two sets. Looks like one set has red background and one has yellow.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_dkr=1&iconV2Request=true&_blrs=recall_filtering&_ssn=alphaomegaphilately&store_cat=0&store_name=alphaomegaphilately&_oac=1&_nkw=aop%20cricket%20odi

Ok found these were made by a company named Art of Play (AOP) who make playing cards, and from the looks of the above ebay listing there are lots of national teams featured. 

https://www.artofplay.com/pages/about-us

Since a cricket team roster is max of 18 players, a 52-card deck would need at least 3 teams represented. 

The OP was correct as per this video posted on youtube the packs were produced in India (Link below) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF96n2CWazA

If you would like to purchase a deck for $10 (free shipping) follow this link - https://www.mercari.com/us/item/m73530640627/

There is also a site https://www.portfolio52.com/ which is a crowd share database for playing cards. They should be able to give you more information. Found a "new data" deck from a quick browse through their website. Front & back of the deck pictured below.

OK, so I've done some more research, and it has been greatly helpful that ESPN Cricinfo has data that can fairly easily be put into Excel.

So it appears that the card I originally posted, as @C2Cigars suggests, was made between 24 July 2013 and 21 November 2013, while the deck @BuccaneersDen posted dates from between 7 July 2012 and 6 February 2013.

So more questions about these cards: are these two distinct decks, or were the stats continuously updated?  Narine is the 6 of Clubs above, but in this second deck he is the 2 of Diamonds.  As each deck features 52 different athletes, this seems to qualify for inclusion, unless, of course, the decks were sort of made to order.  That is, the printers had images of at least 52 cricket players and would print a deck with the "New Data" as of the current day, and on random card numbers.  The phrase "New Data" implies that there is at least one deck issued before the deck between July and February.  And of course it is possible to narrow down the dates by looking at more than one card per set.  Example: the Narine card narrows the dates in the earlier set to 16 July to 30 November.  Since International Cricket doesn't have seasons per se, except for when the Indian Premier League is active, it is difficult to find a period as long as a week without an ODI.

For the sake of completeness I include the front and back of the later deck and a link to a YouTube video of all of the cards in each deck one at a time.

2012 Deck Card by Card

2013 Deck Card by Card

You could try asking at https://www.ozcardtrader.com.au/ as there is a wider range of cricket collectors there. (Though they may not do the digging members here are willing to do.)