Boxes 16 & 17 from 97/98 Case Share

Box 16 went down last night. Heres the results...

Box Card: B3 - S Waugh / Cullinan
1: C1 - Warwick Armstrong Captain
2: Base
3: Base
4: Base
5: Base
6: Base
7: SC2 - Astle Strike Rate
8: Base
9: H6 - Shane Warne Ashes Highlights
10: P13 - Gilchrist Parallel
11: P15 - McIntyre Parallel
12: SC4 - Bevan Strike Rate and P17 - Law Parallel
13: Base
14: Base
15: SC1 - M Waugh Strike Rate
16: Base
17: Base
18: Base
19: Base
20: P14 - Martyn Parallel
21: Base
22: Base
23: SC3 - Cronje Strike Rate
24: P18 - McGrath Parallel
25: Base
26: Base
27: Base
28: P16 - Warne Parallel
29: Base
30: P19 - Julian Parallel
31: SC12 - Pollock Strike Rate
32: Base
33: Base
34: P22 - Hayden Parallel
35: Base
36: P12 - M Waugh Parallel

In summary:
9 Parallel Cards
5 Strike Rate Cards
1 Ashes Highlights (Warne)
1 Captain (Armstrong) which I didn't already have

Below is a quote from the Cardzone website relating to these cards...

"Base Set: 100 cards. AT LEAST 1 Base Set in the box."

I was 7 cards short of a base set. Anyone else seen this???

Anyways, if you didn't gather, I was more than happy with the bust and Im looking forward to box 17 tonight!!!

nice one mate, hope you get a showtime haha we will have to do some trades later on I have heaps of insert doubles from my two boxes

Nice mate, you smashed the odds, all the best with box 17....I may do my box #20 tonight

good box mate, all the best for the next box. hoping someone bags a showtime

OK then here is box 17...

Box Card: B4 (Healy / Richardson)
1: C10 - Mark Taylor Captain
2: Base
3: H1 - Greg Blewett Ashes Highlights
4: Base
5: Base
6: SC9 - Allan Donald and P2 - Steve Waugh
7: P5 - Justin Langer
8: Base
9: Base
10: Base
11: Base
12: P10 - Ricky Ponting
13: Base
14: P8 - Ian Healy
15: Base
16: Base
17: Base
18: P6 - Jason Gillespie
19: SC11 - Chris Harris
20: P9 - Craig McDermott
21: P21 - Damien Fleming
22: Base
23: SC10 - Glenn McGrath
24: P7 - Paul Reiffel
25: Base
26: P11 - Michael Bevan
27: SC8 - Chris Cairns
28: Base
29: Base
30: Base
31: Base
32: P4 - Jo Angel
33: Base
34: Base
35: Base
36: Base

Once again very happy to pull a Captain which I didn't already have and I even got a full common set out of this box

If there is one thing I have learned from these busts, it is never to buy loose packs of these cards. Seems all the reasonable hits were in the very first pack of the box, sitting front and centre...

I'll be chasing a few cards to complete parts of this set (some box cards, about 40 commons, 3 Parallel and 3 Captains) and all the Strike Rate cards I pulled will be on the table also if anyone is keen. I'll start an official thread in the next day or so and see how I go...

Thanks again to Liam for a marvellous organisational effort Hope someone else out there can snaffle a Showtime from this case!!

Nice busting there Grant - I too am amazed at the fact all the captain cards sit at the top of the box.

Also amazed noone has yet pulled a Warne Showtime - it goes to show it is a tough pull!!

bjs127 said:

Nice busting there Grant - I too am amazed at the fact all the captain cards sit at the top of the box.

Also amazed noone has yet pulled a Warne Showtime - it goes to show it is a tough pull!!

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I am not amazed, they are 1 in 2520 packs which means they are 1 per 70 boxes which means 3 1/2 Cases We only busted 1 Case of 20 boxes so I didn't expect one to come out.

Great to see ANOTHER Captain Card from this Case (Well done mate), does that mean EVERY box got one so far?

1:70 boxes!! Wow, sorry Richo I didn't do the maths right on that one correctly.

Well surely it should be a $500+ card then??

No wonder noone has pulled one!!

bjs127 said:

1:70 boxes!! Wow, sorry Richo I didn't do the maths right on that one correctly.

Well surely it should be a $500+ card then??

No wonder noone has pulled one!!

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Yeah I am surprised they don't sell for more considering how hard they are to get.

Sweet boxes Grant! Well done and glad you are happy with them mate

bjs127 said:

1:70 boxes!! Wow, sorry Richo I didn't do the maths right on that one correctly.
Well surely it should be a $500+ card then??
No wonder noone has pulled one!!

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I have to disagree there. Regardless of how tough it is to pull or how limited, there is no way it is worth $500+. They struggle to sell for $300 on ebay. If it was a signature card on the other hand then it would easily be $500+++ IMO :v:

The MW PB signature card was 1:2000packs and that sells for under $350

Richo said:

Great to see ANOTHER Captain Card from this Case (Well done mate), does that mean EVERY box got one so far?

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Upon closer inspection, it is not really that surprising... I think (of course I may be wrong) the only boxes not to have a Captain are those which had a Partnership card or a Sig Redemption card (which also sat right on top of the box??)

If you add ALL the Captains, Partership, Sigs and Showtime cards together it comes to ~6850 cards, and out of 7000 boxes, you would be mighty unlucky not to pull one of the above. (Has anyone pulled two of the above in a single box?)

Seems that rather than just sticking a Captain in 1:50 packs, they put them in the boxes with none of the other hits. As they say, the odds reflect the total run not any individual box... Hats off to Select for this one, very smart collation IMHO.