After three consecutive disappointing losses, the 1st XI returned to winning ways in spectacular style as they beat Shenfield at Upminster Park. Having won the toss, captain Alan Ison was able to put his feet up and watch Tom Daniels and Kiran Kullar both make excellent half centuries to put Upminster in a good position in the baking sunshine. Although both openers fell just after passing 50 Upminster continued to move towards a big total as all of the top eight batsmen made double figures. Pulkit Gupta (26 from 30) and Nehal Butt (30 from 25) both impressed, while the skipper hit a brilliant 49 from just 33 balls to help Upminster post 262-8 from their 50 overs. Jack Plom claimed 3-56 for the visitors. Butt and Ellis Pickering both picked up an early wicket in the Shenfield reply but Lesiba Ngoepe and Haris Mahmood rebuilt well, albeit at a steady pace. They both fell to Billy Wright, who then also quickly removed Plom, to put Upminster on top, but Max Bear made 41 to steady the Shenfield ship. Despite James Aggio Brewe removing Bear, the game appeared to be heading for a draw as the overs ticked by. Butt and Ollie Todd then picked up a wicket each leaving Upminster needing two more in the last three overs. Ison removed Mehad Khan for 22 and then Aggio-Brewe bowled Charlie Haddon with 11 balls remaining to give Upminster a famous and well deserved victory by 96 runs.
It was a more simple afternoon for the 2nd XI as they made it 11 wins from 11 at Billericay. The home side actually made an excellent start with Stuart Hynes (61) and Willam Dale putting on an excellent opening stand. However, when Jordan Tolan removed Dale and then Thomas Lee straight after the Ricay innings began to stall. Captain Nicky Ison, who has been in fine form this season, removed Hynes and then began to work his way through the middle order. Mihir Mehrotra and Matthew Elliot showed some late resistance with the bat, but Ison's 5-36 helped keep Billericay to 153-9. Ison then opened the batting with the Big Show, Josh Lamont, and they put on 58 before the captain was run out for 13. Lamont made 37 to keep up his recent good form, and although Upminster lost a third wicket Nick O'Dell and Terry Wyatt rolled back the years to see their side to a seven wicket win.
Innings of the day came from 14 year old Gus Siggins in the 3rd XI's derby win at Hornchurch. Despite 32 from Arun Kullar and 21 from Alex Ward Upminster were in huge trouble when youngster Siggins came to the crease. However, the youngster showed amazing composure to rebuild the innings. He shared excellent stands with Ant Limn (24), Mark Schofield (37) and Andrew Berry (26) and ended up unbeaten on 62 as Upminster recovered to post 249. Mark D'Cruz then showed his class at this level once more as he tore through the Hornchurch top order. D'Cruz claimed 7-15 as the home side collapsed to 34-7 at one stage, and although Connor Hartwell made an excellent 36 the home side were dismissed for 82 and Upminster remain in the title race.
There was a defeat for the 4th XI against Oakfield Parkonians at Coopers. Big Dave Cowley claimed 3-25 for Upminster, but runs for Teerath Diocee helped Parkonians towards a competitive score. Karim Govani and Ben Hamberger claimed two wickets each for Ian Munn's side but Parks battled to make 172. Upminster made a good start in reply and for much of the innings looked like they would pick up the points, but a middle order collapse pegged them back and they ended up all out for 152.
The 5th XI drew their game with Shenfield 4s despite 86 from Mark Hortop. Hortop's innings was much needed as Ian Twine's 20 was the next top score for Aalok Latey's men but they managed to post 185-7. Harry Bradford picked up two early wickets for Upminster to put his side on top and captain Latey then claimed three middle order victims as Upminster scented victory. However, Dillon Small and Boopathi Sivarajan dug in and helped Shenfield claim the draw at 150-8.
With their league game against Benfleet called off the 6th XI took on Redbridge in a friendly. Oliver Ward claimed 5-18 and Joshan Narbheram 2-21 as Redbridge were bowled out for 171. Upminster put up a good effort in their chase but were eventually dismissed for 149.