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Indians take great strides

JOHOR BAHRU (Malaysia) OCT. 12. India moved up to the fifth place along with Italy after firing nine-under 63 in the third round of the Davidoff Nations Cup, the World Cup qualifier, at the Palm Resort Golf and Country Club here on Saturday.

The Indian duo of Mukesh Kumar and Feroz Ali Mollah scripted nine birdies and ended the second straight bogey-free day. India's three-day total was 18-under 198, just two strokes behind the joint leaders, Singapore, Switzerland and Myanmar.The scores: Singapore (Mardan Mamat, Lam Chih Bing) (64, 69, 63), Myanmar (Kyi Hla Han, Soe Kyaw Naing) (62, 68, 66) and Switzerland (Andre Bossert, Mark Chatelain) (64, 66, 66) 196; The Philippines (Danny Zarate, Marciano Pucay) (64, 68, 65) 197; Italy (Costantino Rocca, Alessandro Napoleoni) (63, 71, 64) and India (Mukesh Kumar, Feroz Ali Mollah) (67, 68, 63) 198; Thailand (Thaworn Wiratchant, Chawalit Plaphol) (65, 67, 67) and The Netherlands (Guido Van Der Valk, Niel Kraaij) (62, 69, 68) 199; Malaysia (Danny Chia, Periasamy Gunasegaran) (67, 70, 64) 201; Pakistan (Muhammad Munir, Imdad Hussain) (66, 75, 61) 202; Taiwan (Lin Keng-Chi, Chen Tze-Chung) (64, 73, 66), Finland (Mikko Ilonen, Kalle Vainola) (66, 70, 67), Hong Kong (Dominique Boulet, Derek Fung) (68, 68, 67) and China (Liang Wen-Chong, Zheng Wen-gen) (67, 69, 67) 203; Spain (Diego Borrero, Ivo Giner (69, 70, 66) 205; Slovenia (Daniel Kraljic, Janez Grilic) (65, 77, 68) 210; Indonesia (Illyassyak, Wahyu Hendarma) (67, 74, 70) 211.

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