Another Indian to do well was Amritinder Singh who shot a one-under 69.

One of the four leaders is Pakistan's Taimur Hassan, whose brilliant eagle on the 18th helped him join the tie for the lead with Thailand's Thammanoon Sriroj, Felix Casas of the Philippines and Japan's Tatsuhiro Ichihara.

Hussain holed a sand wedge from 105 yards for a three on the par five last hole to card a 65 at Tianjin Warner International Golf Club.

England's Chris Williams, Japan's Kazuyoshi Yonekura and Australian Cameron Percey returned 66s.

Hussain, who won the London Myanmar Open, last saw his ball take one bounce and go into the hole. He played a 34 for the first nine and 31 on thereturn.

Thammanoon, who has won three times on the Davidoff Tour, mastered the front nine playing it in four-under-par 30. But Thammanoon last won on the in the 1997 Pakistan Masters.

Leading Scores

65 Taimur Hussain (Pak), Thammanoon Sriroj (Tha), Felix Casas (Phi), Tatsuhiko Ichihara (Jpn); 66 Chris Williams (Eng), Kazuyoshi Yonekura (Jap), Cameron Percy (Aus); 67 Anthony Kang (Kor), Boonchu Ruangkit (Tha), Simon Yates (Sco), Christian Pena (US), Park No-Seok (Kor), Aaron Meeks (US), Greg Hanrahan (US), Rafael Ponce (Ecu), Rodrigo Cuello (Phi), Clay Devers (US); 68 Peter Lawrie (Ire), Yeh Wei-Tze (Tpe), Andrew Pitts (US), Jyoti Randhawa (Ind), Kenny Druce (Aus); 69 Lu Chien-Soon (Tpe), Lai Hung-Lin (Tpe), Thongchai Jaidee (Tha), Richard Kaplan (Rsa), Des Terblanche (SA), Amritinder Singh (Ind), Scott Rowe (HK), Lu Wen-Teh (Tpe)