Angad Cheema followed his opening day's four-under 68 with a 71 to sit alongside Finland's Mikko Korhonen (72), Iceland's Gudmundur Kristjansson (71) and Germany's Marcel Siem (70), who were all on five-under 139 with Cheema at the end of the second day as scoring grew progressively tougher.
In the process, Manu, currently second on the PGTI Order of Merit, also set the course record at the first-ever PGTI event being played at the Vooty Golf County in Vikarabad.