India, Feb. 12 -- Hotstar, the official streaming platform for the India vs England series, suffered a momentary outage leading up to the toss and then again during the first over of the Indian innings. The third and final ODI of the series is being played at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, the same venue where the Indian cricket team endured the daddy of all heartbreaks when they lost the 2023 World Cup final to Australia.

This is India's first international at the world's largest cricket stadium since November 19, 2023, and this connection didn't go unnoticed by fans. Although the services were restored quickly, users, miffed with the outage, wondered what went wrong with Hotstar, dishing out some gems in the process. The one t...