The top 25 players were separated by just three shots as the third round of the Maybank Championship moved towards its conclusion at Saujana Golf & Country Club.
Nino Bertasio and Phachara Khongwatmai had entered the day one-shot ahead of the field and while they stayed at the top of the leaderboard after turning in 34, they were joined by Spaniard Jorge Campillo and India's Khalin H Joshi at 13 under.
Ryan Fox, Dylan Frittelli, Berry Henson, Mike Lorenzo-Vera, Hideto Tanihara, Marc Warren and Lee Westwood were then all just one shot off the lead.
With just three shots separating the top 24 players overnight, the opportunity was there to make a move on the leaders and the move came quickly.
On Friday 15 different players had held a share of the lead at some point and there was already a ten-way tie as the final group were walking down the first.
Fox joined that group in spectacular style as he made the first albatross of the season on the first, holing his second shot on the par five with a six iron from 213 yards.
The logjam at the top was soon broken as Bertasio eagled the same hole to get to 13 under, with a birdie from Khongwatmai also moving him out of the pack.
Yusaku Miyazato had started the day five shots off the lead and teed off on the tenth, making birdies on his opener, the 11th, 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th with a bogey on the 14th to turn in 31.
He then eagled the first for the third day in a row to jump into a share of the lead.
The 37 year old had the lead on his own when Bertasio three-putted the third and dropped back to 12 under.
Miyazato bogeyed the fourth after sending his tee-shot a long way right and he was replaced at the top of the leadeboard by Shiv Kapur who had made birdies on the first, third, fifth, ninth, 11th and 12th.
Campillo had eagled the first and he birdied the fifth and then put his tee-shot on the par three seventh to tap-in range to join the lead.
Khongwatmai made the most of the par five fifth to make it a three-way tie and while Kapur bogeyed the 13th, the 18 year old holed a 12-footer on the seventh to take the lead on his own.
A ragged tee-shot from Khngwatmai then led to him taking a drop on the ninth and with Bertasio making a birdie there was a four-way tie.
Joshi had eagled the first and birdied the fifth but when he turned in 33 he was not threatening the leaders. A run of three gains in five holes from the 11th then moved him up the leaderboard.
Kapur and Miyazato had dropped into the group at 11 under alongside Ryo Ishikawa and Prayad Marksaeng.
