Former Australian Test cricketer Glenn McGrath has said he deeply regrets shooting African animals – despite speaking about wanting to do so two years before.

He is facing a wave of angry criticism after pictures showing him with dead African wildlife began circulating online.

Glenn McGrath posing with a dead elephant. Credit:Twitter

The photographs of McGrath, who is known to enjoy hunting, can be found by searching Chipitani Safaris, a game park in South Africa, but appear to have been removed from the website.

They show the former fast bowler crouched beside what looks like a dead buffalo, two hyenas and posing with the tusks of an elephant.