Singapore – Memories of great moments in cricket will be preserved forever with an online footage archive database. The project, which will be managed by the International Cricket Council’s global broadcast partner ESPN STAR Sports, will make it easy for broadcasters, documentary film-makers and journalists to access and license footage from more than 40 years of great multi-team international cricket events. ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat praised this important step in promoting the wonderful cricketing duels of yesterday and maintaining the legacy of the great sport of cricket. “Ensuring the legacy of the coverage from our events is vitally important to maintaining the status of cricket throughout the world. Through this state-of-the-art online archive, we will maintain and update an archive of all our events,” said Lorgat. “This archive will include footage from all of the ICC’s televised events, such as the ICC Cricket World Cup, ICC World Twenty20, ICC Champions Trophy, ICC Women’s World Cup, ICC U19 Cricket World Cup and many other events that we organise,” he added. As every event is completed, the ICC archive will automatically update, giving the approved user instant access to some of the defining moments in cricketing history.