Andrew Gale says Phil Jaques' hunger for runs is just what Yorkshire need.

The experienced Australian left-hander has arrived in England ahead his second spell with the White Rose county, who play their next LV= County Championship match against Essex at Headingley on Thursday.

Jaques holds a British passport due to parentage and has signed a two-year contract with Yorkshire, and he was at Lord's today to have his status as a non-overseas player rubber-stamped by the ECB.

Captain Gale and first-team coach Jason Gillespie face an interesting selection call for their second Division Two match of the summer.

They have definitely got to make one change to the side that drew with Kent last weekend because of Rich Pyrah's broken left hand, which could see could Jaques coming in as a straight swap.

Anthony McGrath, with match figures of 7-65 in the most recent drawn friendly against Leeds/Bradford MCCU, would take on Pyrah's overs and possibly drop down the batting order from number three.

Jaques, who retired from state cricket in Australia during the winter, scored an impressive 2,477 runs at an average of 61.92 from 24 first-class matches for Yorkshire in 2004 and 2005.

He hit seven hundreds, including 243 against Hampshire at the Rose Bowl in 2004.

"His appetite for runs when he was here last time was great," explained Gale. "He made big runs, double hundreds, and that’s what we need in our side.

"Phil will bring his enthusiasm for cricket. I think they call him Mr Cricket in the same mould as Mike Hussey.

"I remember when he was here last time that we were trying to turn the lights off when he still wanted to be practising with the bowling machine. He likes to hit a lot of balls, and he helped me a lot when I was a young player.

"I hope that rubs off on some of the young players that we have at the club now."

While drawing comparisons between the New South Welshman and Mike Hussey, Gale also believes his new team-mate will bring similar characteristics to the Yorkshire dressing room that another current Test star recently did.

"He's a good guy, in a similar mould to Jacques Rudolph I think," said Gale.

Jaques' status as a non-overseas player, should it be ok'd by the ECB, opens the door for Yorkshire to bring in a fast bowler as their overseas player, an area in which they are at their lightest.

With Gillespie as coach, the assumption has long been that the target will be Australian.

Gale added: "We’ve talked about an overseas bowler, and there have been discussions about it. But we’ll have to see what happens. It’s hard to nail people down, particularly at this time of the year with the IPL and things."

Essex won their opening Division Two match by an innings and 38 runs against Gloucestershire at Chelmsford. England's Ravi Bopara is available to play this week.