ESSEX'S Ravi Bopara has been bought by Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL auction.
Sunrisers paid 10 million Indian rupees (£100,000) for the England all-rounder.
The 29-year-old isn't the only Englishman to feature in the squad, with Kevin Pietersen bought for 20 million rupees (£205,000), while England's current One Day captain Eoin Morgan also picked up for the base price of 15 million rupees (£156,000).
There will be another local link to the Sunrisers side as Hanuma Vihari, who scored runs for fun for Hutton Cricket Club in the Essex Cricket League Division One last season, was bought for one million rupees (£10,424).
Vihari averaged 83.92 in his 16 innings for Hutton, scoring 1,007 runs with five 50s and three centuries.
He was second in the batting rankings having scored eight runs less than Fives & Heronians' Mick Perry, but Vihari played six games fewer.
