All 3 remaining Murrayfield  teams went out of the Handicap Cup at the 2nd round stage at  North Merchiston.

Team 8 (Chris Markey, Hamish Barrie and William Skinner) and team 5 (Alex Asounkin, Howard Beck and Roger Thomas) both lost in disappointingly one-sided matches.  

Team 6 (Ian Robertson 0/3, Rowan Campbell 1/2 and Charlie Ellis 2/3) were pretty close to going through,  losing an entertaining contest 5-3 to a useful Edinburgh International side led by Simon Fu. Ian losing (primarily because of a few wayward smashes) to Simon in a desperately close match that would-had Ian won it- have leveled the match at 4-4.