Six turf-wicket T20 tournaments in Melbourne since December 2024 — proper franchises, real selection panels, every match streamed live. We are bringing it to Chennai for boys and girls, Under 12 through Senior, and we are looking for the first group of players.
₹250 team selection fee · Takes a couple of minutes · Registering does not guarantee a place
Four league-owned clubs and eight age bands — five open, and three girls' bands of their own — played on Sundays from January to April 2027. Registering takes a couple of minutes: tell us about the player, pick a team selection day and pay the ₹250 selection fee in the same step.
Every date below is from the rollout plan. Team selection days are confirmed; the ground is not yet.
Registrations close. Bands that have not attracted enough players are merged or held over.
Team selection days, both Sundays. A third Sunday on 20 December if it is needed.
Offers go out to selected players after the panel sits.
Squads are final. Uniforms handed out.
Round 1 — the first Sunday of Season 1.
Finals and presentation day.
VECL was built to close the gap between training and real match cricket — a performance-focused, franchise-branded T20 league run to a standard most players do not meet until much later. Under 12 through Senior, boys and girls, every match streamed live.
Chennai runs four league-owned clubs — Sholinganallur Sharks, Medavakkam Magnets, Velachery Vikings and Perungudi Panthers — across U12, U14, U16, U18 and Senior squads, plus Girls U14, Girls U18 and Women. In Melbourne the same model runs three franchises and over 400 players a year.
Girls have three bands of their own — Girls U14, Girls U18 and Women — not a few places in a boys' team. They are wide on purpose: a first season fills three bands properly where it would spread five too thin. And because they start from nothing, they run at a lower registration threshold than the open bands, so a girls' competition is not judged against numbers a league takes years to build. If you play, or your daughter plays, this is being built for you.
Games are telecast live on YouTube, Facebook and our own channels, so family in another country watches the same over as the parent on the boundary. The recordings stay up, which means a player's innings is something they can actually send to a selector.
Matches are scored live in our own app, so family watching from anywhere sees the game as it happens — with leaderboards, MVP analytics and a shareable performance card the player keeps.
Every match figure lands on the player's Pathfinder profile beside their coach's ratings, so progress across a season is something you can look at rather than something you remember.
Premiership trophies, best batter, best bowler, best fielder and players' player awards — presented properly, because recognition is half of why a child keeps turning up.
The people who run the league run Elite Cricket Academy — three centres across Hoppers Crossing, Pakenham and Medavakkam in Chennai, with coaching, gyms and player tracking behind them.
Elite already tours between Melbourne and Chennai, including fixtures against Tamil Nadu junior development sides. A Chennai league gives players on both sides more cricket to travel for.
Registrations are taken in the Elite app rather than on a form, so your registration is attached to a real account. You can see where the player stands, update the details and register a second child without typing everything again.
Open the Elite app and sign up with your email. It is the same account you would use for coaching and bookings, so there is nothing extra to remember.
Open the VECL tile, pick VECL Chennai, tell us about the player, choose 6 or 13 December as their selection day, and pay by UPI or card — all in one step. The registration is complete once the ₹250 is paid, and not before. Your details are saved before the payment page opens, so an interrupted payment costs you nothing but a second attempt — you can finish paying from the same screen. The fee is not refundable.
If the panel offers a place, you confirm it in the app. You will see exactly where you stand at every step.
Registering does not guarantee a place. It is ₹250 per player to register and book a team selection day, paid in the app by UPI or card, in rupees. The fee is not refundable, including if the player is not selected.
₹250 per player to register and book a team selection day, paid by UPI or card when you submit the form. That is what registering costs.
No. It books their place at a team selection day and puts them in front of the selectors — it does not buy a squad place. Teams are picked at the selection days, and the panel's decision is final. You can see exactly where the registration stands in the app: registered, selection day booked, trialled, place offered, enrolled.
Neither. The open bands run from Under 12 to Senior, so there is adult cricket here as well as junior. And girls have three bands of their own — Girls U14, Girls U18 and Women — rather than a few places in a boys' team. Those bands are deliberately wide, because a first season fills three properly where it would spread five too thin, and they run at a lower registration threshold than the open bands so that a competition starting from nothing is not judged against numbers a league takes years to build.
Yes. Every match is telecast live on YouTube, Facebook and our own channels, and scored ball by ball in the app at the same time — so a grandparent in another city or country sees the same over as the parent on the boundary. The recordings stay up afterwards, so a player's innings is something they can send on.
Not at all — most of our players do. Tell us the club and grade when you register; it helps the selectors place them in the right age group.
So your registration belongs to you. It means we can ring a person rather than chase a form, you can correct the details later, register a second child in a few taps, and follow selection without emailing to ask.
Yes. Add each player to your account once, then register each of them from the same VECL screen. The fee is per player.
Tell us and we will take the player out of consideration. Fees already paid are not refunded, so it is worth being sure before you register — and worth telling us early, because a place we can free up early is a place another player gets.
No. The ₹250 team selection fee is not refundable, including if the player is not selected. The ₹250 pays for the selection day itself — the ground, the officials and the panel's time — which happens whether or not a place follows.
As the age groups fill and the trial dates are set. Everyone who registers is contacted — including if there is no place this season, so you are never left wondering.
Register the player now — ₹250, a couple of minutes — and their team selection day is booked in the same step.
Register your interestChennai enquiries go to the Medavakkam academy.
