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India Championship: Fading light stops second round in New Dehli

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Andy Gray
India Championship: Fading light stops second round in New Dehli
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The second round of the DP World India Championship in New Delhi was suspended due to fading light. Several top players, including Rory McIlroy, were unable to complete their rounds, leaving a four-way tie for the lead.

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Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Rory McIlroy was number of players who had their second rounds cut short on Friday

DP World India Championship, day two leaderboard

-8 J Luiten (Ned), A Hidalgo (Spa), AMeronk (Pol), T Detry (Bel) (7*); -7 E Pepperell (Eng), T Clements (Eng), E Lopez-Chacarra (Spa) (5*)

Selected others: -5 T McKibbin (NI) (7*), D Young (Sco); -4 R McIlroy (NI) (4*), T Fleetwood (Eng) (4*), R MacIntyre (Sco), R Jameson (Sco) (7*), E Ferguson (Sco) (5*); E J Rose (Eng) (5*); +1 L Donald (Eng) (6*); +3 S Lowry (Ire) (6*)

*Denotes number of holes played before play ended on day one

Rory McIlroy was one of a number of players impacted after the second round of the DP World India Championship was suspended because of fading light.

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