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Reuters UK
By Amlan Chakraborty (Reuters) – In a perfect world, Kobus Olivier would be teaching English in a private school in Kyiv and sowing cricket dreams in young minds in Ukraine. Instead, as Russian forces closed in on Kyiv, the chief executive of the Ukraine Cricket Federation (UCF) locked himself in his seventh-floor apartment in the capital. A self-proclaimed ‘cricket nomad’ from South Africa, Oliver has stocked up on a month’s supply of food, despite having lost his appetite. He is “terrified”, he says, but keeping him sane are his four dogs and a dream – of Ukraine becoming an associate member…