The VECA season had been scheduled to start on October 9, but the state government's COVID-19 roadmap for Victoria states that community sport won't resume until the 80 per cent full vaccination mark is reached.

That is expected to be reached on or around November 5.

"We're in a holding pattern at the moment,'' EVCA president Ron Gray said.

"We won't make any decisions until we get an exact starting date and we know what we can do. This might drag on until December, who knows?"

Gray said the league hasn't mandated a "no jab, no play" policy, but he encouraged players who participate in the EVCA to get vaccinated.

"In line with what's going on with the community right now, we'd say to clubs and players that it's in their best interest to get vaccinated,'' Gray said.

"We play a community sport and we need to look after each other and everyone else in the community."

The EVCA played a full season of one-day matches last summer because of doubts surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.

This season the league had planned to return to its traditional two-day fixture.

Now that the season will start late, the EVCA board will reassess its options once a starting date is finalised.

"We'll cross that bridge when we get to it,'' Gray said.

"At our AGM the mandate from the players for us to return to two-day cricket was overwhelming.

"If we can get to a position where we have 18 weeks available and we can play nine two-day rounds that could work for us.

"No matter when we start, what we'll be looking for is the best way we can provide an equal draw.

"Whatever the situation is, the board wants to put on a fair and equal competition."

Gray said a full season of one-day matches had worked well last summer, but he was not convinced it would work as well this time around.

"Depending on how much we had to shorten the season, I don't think it would be as well received as last year,'' Gray said.

"The feedback we received across the board last year was that players didn't like that in half the games they didn't get a bat or bowl.

"Sometimes they went four weeks without a bat or bowl and they felt as though they were just making up the numbers at the club.

"I could see their point."

Emu Creek won last summer's division one grand final by 20 runs over United.

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