County Cricket can stream a match from a phone to YouTube, with the live score burned into the picture. The video goes to your own channel — County Cricket never hosts it — so it is on youtube.com and in your archive when the match is over.
Who, when, and where
- Who: the organiser, or the streamer named in Match Crew. The organiser can always Go Live, even when a streamer is assigned.
- When: only while the match is live or delayed, and only if no other phone is already streaming it.
- Where: the installed Android app. The website cannot start or stop a stream.
One-time setup
- Use a YouTube channel that has live streaming turned on. In YouTube or YouTube Studio open Go Live and enable it. The first time, YouTube can take up to 24 hours.
- You will sign in with the Google account that owns that channel and allow County Cricket to manage its live broadcasts. After Google signs you in, your browser returns to the app; if it does not, tap Back to the app on the page.
- Allow the camera and the microphone when the app asks.
Going live
- On a live match tap Go Live.
- County Cricket connects your channel and creates the broadcast. The title is made for you from the style and the two side names.
- The phone turns landscape and starts sending 1080p video at 30 frames a second, with the live score in the picture.
- When YouTube confirms the stream is arriving, the broadcast goes live automatically.
Expect roughly two to five seconds between the ball and the picture. The stream adapts to a weak connection and reconnects on its own up to five times, three seconds apart. The broadcast is set so a drop in signal does not end the match — only End Live does.
Watching
- In the app the YouTube player sits on the match screen, and the score bar follows the video’s delay so a boundary shows when the ball does. The live board and scorecard tabs update a few seconds sooner.
- On the website the video appears under the score once a viewer taps it, with an Open on YouTube link.
- For playback inside the app your channel needs YouTube’s Embed live streams feature (an Advanced feature in YouTube Studio → Settings → Channel → Feature eligibility). Without it the broadcast still works, and viewers are sent to YouTube’s watch page instead.
Passing streaming to another phone
If a second phone taps Go Live while the first is on air, it asks for a handover and waits up to 90 seconds. The first phone accepts and keeps sending until the new one is live, so the same YouTube video carries on. There is no force takeover. Use Match settings → Transfer streaming to hand it over on purpose.
Ending
Tap End Live on the match when you are done. If the match itself is ended, abandoned, or a walkover, the broadcast is stopped too. A broadcast that never went live is deleted rather than saved.
If something goes wrong
- “Live streaming is not enabled” — enable it in YouTube Studio and wait up to 24 hours the first time.
- Sign-in problems — sign in again, or reconnect YouTube when the app asks.
- “Another phone is streaming” — request a handover, or End Live on that phone.
- A quota message — YouTube’s live limit was reached. Try again later.
- Timeouts — the network was too slow. Tap Try again.
- “Playback disabled” in the in-app player — the channel does not have Embed live streams. Watch on YouTube for now.
