All major news and sport portals reported toda'ys big football festival and celebration, where cricket was the official guest sport. Our detailed coverage and gallery will follow soon, in the meantime please read the articles in our News section.

The Danube Benders toured Devon 30 July - 6 August 2013, as the first all-native Hungarian adult team to have played a full tour in England - though not the first Hungarian team, an honour that goes to the juniors from Comenius Szekesfehervar some years ago. This was a tremendously exciting development following Hungary's admittance as an affliate ICC member in 2012. The Danube Benders' first game (evening T20) was against Broadclyst Nomads - we lost by just 14 runs, a lovely game with ladies featured on both sides.

The press conference for the FociFesztivál has concluded last week, and we have been waiting for the press coverage to come in so that we can post about it. We gained much publicity through the event, and our presence was mentioned in such popular news outlets such as Info Rádió, Nemzeti Sport and Magyar Nemzet Online. Cricket was welcomed by the organisers as yet another means to reach out to children, encourage them to lead an active lifestyle and to diversify the available choices.

Last Saturday, the first two games of the Apple Tree 25 over development division were played. Since there are only four teams playing in the whole division, all of them were around KAC, and there was much mixing of players, with some hardy souls playing what amounted to 50 over games of cricket, which couldn't even happen in the first division. The four teams were DCC, the Natives, Fairies and Bat and Ball.