Ten­sion is ris­ing be­tween crick­et leg­end Bri­an Lara and Med­corp Ltd fol­low­ing the dis­cov­ery that his name was used with­out per­mis­sion in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Bri­an Lara Can­cer Treat­ment Cen­tre. Lara’s le­gal team has for­mal­ly re­quest­ed an­swers af­ter the health­care com­pa­ny re­cent­ly launched a $16.8 mil­lion ini­tial pub­lic of­fer­ing (IPO) ref­er­enc­ing the cen­tre.

Sources close to the sit­u­a­tion told the Sun­day Guardian that Lara wants his name re­moved from the can­cer treat­ment cen­tre man­aged by Med­corp. The cen­tre, es­tab­lished in 2007 and named in ho­n­our of Lara fol­low­ing the loss of his moth­er to can­cer, has long been as­so­ci­at­ed with the crick­et leg­end’s lega­cy.

When con­tact­ed yes­ter­day, Lara re­vealed he on­ly re­cent­ly be­came aware of the IPO.