India's Ajeetesh Sandhu and Viraj Madappa played solid rounds of 68 each on different courses to make the halfway cut at the New Zealand Open golf tournament at Queenstown today.
 
Sandhu and Madappa were the only two out of six Indians to get into weekend rounds. While Sandhu shot bogey free four-under 68 to get to a three-under total for a tied-25th spot while Madappa was three-under 68 at  with four birdies in last eight holes to reach two-under and was tied-35.  Sandhu shot one-over 72  in the first round, while Madappa shot one-over 73  on the first day.

The other Indians Shiv Kapur 71-74, Khalin Joshi 71-79, Aman Raj 74-72 and Chiragh Kumar 74-74 missed the cut, which fell at even-par.

Meanwhile,  Joohyung Kim of Korea and Ben Eccles from Australia, occupied the top two spots on the leader board.