Yorkshire have signed South African batsman Herschelle Gibbs as their second overseas player for this season's Twenty20 campaign.

The 35-year-old will miss the White Rose county's first two matches in the competition before joining up with the Yorkshire squad before the game against Durham Dynamos on June 10.

He will be available to play in all of Yorkshire's Twenty20 matches from then on.

"I've always enjoyed playing cricket in the UK and have very good memories of Headingley as I got my first World Cup hundred there in 1999," said Gibbs. "I'm really looking forward to playing over there and I'll hopefully help to lead the troops towards some sort of success.

"I think Twenty20 cricket is consistently the flavour of the month with regards to spectators and the following worldwide has grown enormously over the last few years.

"I'm still yet to get a hundred in Twenty20 cricket and I did promise myself that I'd get at least a few before I call it quits one day.

"There are a lot of challenges that I'd still like to achieve and overcome and I'm probably enjoying my cricket now more than ever before, so I'm really looking forward to the challenge."