The veteran Indian, who has won four times on European Tour, but not since the Scottish Open in 2012, is now even par 144 for 36 holes after a first round 71.
His colleague Shiv Kapur will however find it difficult to slip inside the cut line as he added a 74 to his first round 72. Daniel Chopra, the Indo-Swede missed the cut with rounds of 71 and 78.
The 18 year old Swede proved that his first round 67 was no fluke with a solid effort in the second round. He made five birdies in his 68 to gain a two stroke advantage over Sebastian Soderberg and Maximilian Kieffer.
Jeev starting on the tenth had seven straight pars, before his first bogey and it was followed by another at second at which point he was in danger of going don further.
Shiv, too, had seven pars before a bogey and then bogeys on first and second saw him slip. A birdie on fifth was small consolation in a 74.
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