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Hero Dubai Desert Classic: India’s lone representative Shubhankar Sharma added 1-under 71 to his first round 72 to make the cut in tied-52nd place at the Dubai Desert Classic.

Sharma saw all the action in the first eight holes, which he began with a double bogey after being stuck in the rough, as against an eagle a day earlier.

Cameron Young shot 67-64 to move into a three-shot lead at the Hero Dubai Desert Classic. He is now 13-under and his nearest rivals are Andy Sullivan, a five-time winner on the DP World Tour, and Poland’s Adrian Meronk, recently voted as the DP World Tour’s Players Player of the Year. Meronk missed a four-foot birdie putt on Par-5 18th which could have put him sole second.