IND vs AUS 2023: Why was Hotstar not working today? Hotstar crash issue explained

Dixit Bhargav | 17/02/2023
IND vs AUS 2023: Why was Hotstar not working today? Hotstar crash issue explained

Indian fans were left in limbo during the first day of the second Test match between India and Australia in Delhi today. Enjoying the match from the comfort of their homes/offices on streaming platform Disney+Hotstar, host broadcaster Star Sports Network’s designated streaming app, numerous fans didn’t know what to do when the platform stopped streaming the match all of a sudden.

Not known to trouble its users on the back of unexpected bugs, Disney+Hotstar registered an exception on Friday especially when the match was in an interesting phase.

As is the general notion among people whenever one of these leading apps face an error, most of them rushed on social media platform Twitter to know the reason behind Hotstar issue today. In the absence of a concrete reason at first, fans didn’t mind sharing memes with respect to the OTT platform on Twitter.

Why was Hotstar not working today?

It was only after the circulation of various memes that a user named Atul Karmakar shared a screenshot of Hotstar’s domain expiry on the same platform. For those who don’t know, any website has to renew its domain after a certain time period. Fans faced the “Player failure in Hotstar” error because someone had missed their domain expiry date.

If truth be told, it is unexpected for a platform of this level to face a domain expiry issue. What made matters worst was the same happening at the time of a live Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test match. The app, however, started to work normally after the domain was renewed (for the next 10 years).

Speaking about the first two sessions at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Friday, Australia scored 199/6 in 56 overs before Tea, Day 1, after captain Pat Cummins won the toss and chose to bat for the second time in a row. With Peter Handscomb and Cummins set to resume proceedings in the evening session, the visitors would be hoping for them to build a solid partnership leading to a respectable first innings total.

Post Edited By: Dixit Bhargav
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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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