India is spin land, you must put together beforehand, says Viv Richards on pitch controversy

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The cricket world divided over the rank turner of pitches at ongoing India vs England Test collection, which noticed the hosts rally to an unassailable 2-1 lead after dropping the primary Test in Chennai.
The corresponding two Tests in Chennai and Ahmedabad respectively noticed England failed to attain greater than 165 over 4 innings with Virat Kohli & Co. exploiting the Poms age-old weak point in opposition to spinners by taking part in three spinners.
While a lot of the English cricket specialists and former specialists have vehemently criticised the Indian pitches, particularly the newly-refurbished Motera floor, which could not host a Test match for greater than two days, specialists from the remainder of the world have largely felt that wickets in India aren’t any shock.

And the brand new entrant within the record is none aside from West Indies nice Sir Vivian Richards, who felt the moaning and groaning over the pitches must cease because the notion concerning the ball being solely pacer-friendly in Test want to vary.
“I’ve been asked questions recently about the Test match that was played in India… the second and third Test match against England. And I am a little confused about the question really because there seems to be a lot of moaning and groaning about the wicket that they were playing on. I just felt that the ones who are moaning, in my opinion, should realise that there are times that you’re going to get a seaming track, a ball that is basically jumping off a good length and everyone thinks that’s a problem for batters. There are times batters sometimes cope with that,” Richards mentioned in a video posted on his Facebook web page
He additional criticised English batsmen for not making ready beforehand for the Indian situations, which has been traditionally spin-friendly.
“But now you’ve seen the other side, and this is why I think it was given the name Test match cricket, because of the test of the mind and will and everything else that goes with it when you’re competing. And the complaints have been that the wicket is spinning too much and all that sorts of stuff. This is another side of the coin guys. People seem to forget that if you’re going to India, you should expect that. You are going to spin land. You should basically prepare yourself to know what you’re going to encounter,” he mentioned.