Chowrasia (69) was six-under 134 overall after picking up two birdies against a lone bogey at the Hong Kong Golf course. Jeev, meanwhile, stroked in five birdies against a couple of bogeys to leapfrog 40 places to tied 54th with a total of two-under 138.
Jyoti Randhawa was a stroke adrift of Chowrasia after he too turned in a 69 to go down six places to tied 22nd.
C Muniyappa carded one-over 71 but he still slipped a rung to tied 119th at one-over overall.
At the top, there was a four-way tie for the lead with French Gregory Bourdy (67), Dutch Robert-Jan Derksen (68), Chinese Liang Wen-chong (65) and South African Charl Schwartzel (66) totalling nine-under after two rounds.
Published 13 November 2009, 17:25 IST