Rock-a-bye Rahul

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You have to pity Rahul Dravid, the India captain. The subject of millions of adoring fans and under the media's watchful glare almost every waking moment, who can blame the man for catching 40 winks? On yet another anonymous flight to the nth venue of this one-day series, photographers eyed an opportunity. Unfortunately, so did we - and so did the 1342 Cricinfo readers who entered our latest caption competition. We're gluttons for punishment, we really are.

Seemant from America had us in fits with a cheeky comment: "Ooh, it's the Indian captain! I think I'll get him out LBW - Loved By Women!" As splendid as that offering was, the award for Stating the Bleeding Obvious went to Steevan Dsouza: "It is not a secret admirer. She is watching TV on the screen behind Dravid's seat." Utterly valid sentiments, Steevan...

Thankfully, Jonathan Miller showed immense imagination with his suggestion: "Even dressed as a groupie, Sourav Ganguly struggled to get noticed by the management." In fact, Jonathan wasn't the only one to mention poor Sourav: "Pretend to be asleep," cried Steve Howe, "Ganguly's trying to sneak back into the team in drag."

We grew weary of the Ganguly-dressed-as-a-woman remarks and enjoyed Gordon Millar's murderous musings: "Rahul Dravid to Greg Chappell: `It's been so quiet since you dropped Sourav...out of the emergency exit.'"

Christina Camilleri provided us with a blank email with no entry enclosed, which wouldn't be worthy of mention here were it not that she works for the International Learning Centre. At least it stood out from the pack, Camilla.

Talking of grabbing our attention, Vithu Kotegena-Local achieved this with immeasurable vision and panache:

"I am Vithu from the Netherlands," he announces. "I think that girl in the maroon panjabi has produced something that doesn't smell that nice. You can see Grag [sic] holding his nose shut and the guy behind the girl is doing the same." It gets better. "She is happy that their captain didn't notice anything - the smell or the sound - but she doesn't know that he has noticed that in his sleep and is vomitting in his dream because of that." Purely in terms of imagination, Vithu wins by a mile, even if we were rather perplexed at it all.

However, the winner is Bhupesh Kalia from Japan whose satire very much tickled our fancy: "Rahul finally finds time to listen to his newly bought CD, "Ring of fire." Congratulations, Bhupesh. A T-shirt courtesy of Crease Clothing will be winging its way to you shortly. We'll have another caption competition for the final one-dayer next week.