Varun Chopra

He played for Essex, and made his debut for the senior side in 2006, making 106 in a drawn game against Gloucestershire, becoming the youngest player to score a century for Essex in county cricket.

Varun Chopra emerged from Essex, a county that has produced several international players, including former England captain Alastair Cook. He is an opening batsman and captained England Under-19s, leading the team to a series whitewash against Sri Lanka in 2005. He averaged 48 in the Test matches and scored a half-century in one of the two One Day Internationals. This was followed by an 11-0 defeat on the winter tour of Bangladesh.

Varun Chopra joined the Willetton Dragons cricket club in the 2006/07 season to play first grade in Western Australia.

Chopra's domestic season started off well in 2006, he struck a hundred and a fifty on Championship debut and has been slowly making his mark in the first team, even keeping Grant Flower out of the side.

Chopra joined Warwickshire for the start of the 2010 season. In 2011 he became the first Warwickshire batsman to score double tons in back to back county matches.

After seven, largely successful seasons at Warwickshire, he returned to Essex during the 2016 season. In 2017 and 2018 he played in the championship only when Alastair Cook was not available, as Nick Browne took the other opener position, but in limited-overs games he was first choice. In 2019 he had spectacular run in the London One-Day Cup scoring 3 centuries and averaging 84 , but Essex did not qualify for the play-offs.

Chopra was part of the England Lions' tour of Australia in 2013, and made a century against Australia A.

In July 2019, he was selected to play for the Amsterdam Knights in the inaugural edition of the Euro T20 Slam cricket tournament. However, the following month the tournament was cancelled.

Chopra joined Middlesex on loan in July 2021, primarily to play in the Royal London Cup.