Irate cricket fans have blasted Kayo after several technical glitches meant those watching Australia\u2019s Test match against South Africa could only see ads.<\/p>\n
Just as the Proteas were starting their second innings at Newlands in Cape Town, fans began reporting that the stream wasn\u2019t showing the cricket and was instead stuck on unskippable advertising.<\/p>\n
Kayo, through Foxtel, is the only place in Australia where fans can watch the series and considering one of the service\u2019s main selling points is \u201ccoverage with no ad-breaks during live play for major sports like the AFL, NRL, and cricket\u201d, fans were left fuming.<\/p>\n
One X, formerly Twitter, account labelled the glitch a \u201ccircus\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s kayosports being kayosports – game is happening while kayo subscribers have been watching ads for the last 20 minutes. Complete circus,\u201d the customer wrote.<\/p>\n
An account using the name Philip wrote: \u201cWhy the f*** do I pay for kayo sports only for them to f*** up and constantly play ads during live play!!!!!\u201d<\/p>\n
Kayo costs $45.99 for the premium package or $29.99 for the basic package.<\/p>\n
Some accounts labelled the problems \u201cabsolutely disgraceful\u201d, with some people getting 10 seconds of play between ads and others nothing but the waiting screen.<\/p>\n
Multiple fans reported missing the first wicket of the second innings as Australia dismissed key South African batsman Aiden Markram for one after ending their first dig with a 100-run advantage, while others also missed the second.<\/p>\n
Fans jumped onto Facebook to savage Kayo, posting highlights while their streams were down.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, the Kayo hold screen was going for 30 min; I missed the first 2 wickets and now just adds wtf is going on,\u201d Scott Martin wrote.<\/p>\n
Kayo had not acknowledged the issues at the time of writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irate cricket fans have blasted Kayo after several technical glitches meant those watching Australia\u2019s Test match against South…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,588,85],"class_list":["post-945300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}