NEW DELHI, June 6: Former Indian cricket team captain Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi has been charged for poaching wild animals, a report said on Monday.

Pataudi, who played for India between 1961 and 1975, was detained on Sunday after police found the carcasses of a black buck and two rabbits in a vehicle in the northern state of Haryana, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.

Police sources were quoted by the news agency as saying that two guns, 50 cartridges and two search lights were also recovered.

V.N. Rai, a senior Haryana police official, said the 64-year-old Pataudi and seven others were charged Monday under the wildlife protection law for killing the animals.

The former cricket captain was born into a Muslim royal family in Madhya Pradesh and bore the nickname “Tiger Pataudi” during his cricketing years.

He was appointed captain of India at the age of 21 in 1962 and played 46 Tests, scoring 2,793 runs and six centuries.—AFP