Yorkshire Vikings have signed West Indies wicketkeeper batsman Nicholas Pooran for this year’s Vitality T20 blast, where he will play five games.

Pooran qualified as an overseas player after having completed the required number of international appearances (15 over the preceding two years) for the Windies during the course of the 2019 World Cup which is currently underway in England and Wales.

The 23 year old made his One Day International debut against England in Bridgetown in February and has gone on to score 163 runs at an average of 32.60 in six matches.

He has also played 11 T20 internationals with 218 runs, striking at 140.

In late 2018, he was the top-scorer in the T10 League in the UAE, scoring 324 runs from nine matches for champions Northern Warriors.

Pooran made his T20 debut in the 2013 Caribbean Premier League for Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel, his first of 102 career T20s to date.

He has since moved to play for Barbados Tridents in the CPL, also featuring in the Bangladesh Premier League, the Pakistan Super League and the IPL, making seven appearances for Kings XI Punjab at the start off this summer through April and May.

The Vitality T20 Blast bowls off on July 19.

Pooran, however, will return to the West Indies squad in time for their home T20 series against India, which begins on August 3 in Florida.