Not every grandparent can be at the ground on a December weekday, and not every parent can watch both of their children’s matches at once. VECL is set up so that nobody has to miss a game. Every match is scored ball by ball and streamed live. This post explains where to find each part, and how the league looks after players whose families have not agreed to them being named or shown up close.
Live scores in the VECL app
The league scores every ball in the VECL app, its own version of the CricHeroes scoring app. When a match is on, it is live in the app, ball by ball, with the full scorecard to look back on afterwards.
The app is on both stores:
Scoring is not an afterthought. Teams hand their squad list to the scorers before the toss, and every ball is recorded so that a performance exists as a record afterwards, not only in someone’s memory.
Watching on YouTube
Matches are streamed live on the league’s YouTube channel, and the recordings are kept, so a match missed on the day can be watched later. The channel is VECL Australia on YouTube.
Streaming is not new for the league. The March 2025 tournament, the first with all three Melbourne franchises, was broadcast live on YouTube and Facebook, and every match of the March 2026 tournament was live-streamed and scored.
The Match Centre on vecl.au
The Match Centre brings it together in one place:
- Next up. The upcoming tournaments, including VECL December 2026 and VECL Chennai Season 1. Fixtures are published with the draw.
- Live telecasts. The latest videos from the YouTube channel.
- Recent results. A selection of recent VECL matches, as scored between December 2025 and July 2026, grouped by tournament and age group. Each match links to its full scorecard on CricHeroes, and each age group shows wins and losses in the matches listed.
- Honours. Finals from those matches, and the individual awards from the league’s first tournament in December 2024.
- Every VECL tournament. The league’s record, back to December 2024.
The results are a selection, not the full record. The league has played more than 200 matches on turf, far more than the Match Centre lists.
How players are protected on camera
Most VECL players are children, and the league’s Photography and Media Policy sets out how streaming works for them:
- Streams use fixed, wide match cameras. Close-ups, interviews and player graphics are used only for players whose families have given consent for publication on the league’s channels.
- Commentary, scorecards and on-screen graphics never name a player without that consent. The scorer and commentator receive the “no publication” list before the match.
- A player without consent still plays. Their matches are streamed, but the cameras stay wide enough that the child cannot be identified.
- A family can ask for a recording to be removed or edited after the match, and the league does so within seven days. What was watched live cannot be recalled.
The same thinking applies to the Match Centre. Player leaderboards appear there only for players whose families have agreed, and none are shown yet.
Families choose each level of consent at registration, and can change or withdraw it at any time by emailing info@vecl.au.
Parents are welcome to photograph and film their own child for family use. Please do not publish images of other people’s children without their parent’s permission, and nobody other than the league livestreams a whole match without the league’s approval. The Parent and Spectator Code of Conduct covers the rest of life on the boundary.
Be in the next match
December 2026 match days are 24, 27, 28, 29 and 30 December, in Melbourne, on turf. Register for team selection for a $20 fee. Questions about scoring, streaming or consent go to info@vecl.au.