West In­dies leg­end, Bri­an Lara, says the “con­ver­sa­tion needs to shift” a day af­ter he was brought in­to the cen­tre of a con­tro­ver­sy in­volv­ing for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, Bar­ry Padarath.

Row­ley post­ed to his Face­book page, “The Bri­an Lara Sta­di­um has been built as a lega­cy to his Her­culean con­tri­bu­tion. It is now a pre­mier crick­et venue in the world. The man him­self must be equal­ly re­spect­ed. He must re­main above the de­struc­tive pet­ty pol­i­tics that is now con­sum­ing this na­tion.”

Mean­while, Padarath re­spond­ed by say­ing, “Ob­vi­ous­ly the for­mer prime min­is­ter was asleep at the wheel be­cause to make a state­ment in the pub­lic like that and not recog­nis­ing that it was un­der his ad­min­is­tra­tion that the con­tract ex­pired, it was not re­newed and did not even seek to clar­i­fy or ask a ques­tion.”