MARTYN MOXON is hoping Kane Williamson’s arrival at Yorkshire will provide the squad with just the boost they need to lift their ailing limited overs form.

Williamson landed in England on Tuesday ahead of a six-week period as the club’s overseas player.

The 25-year-old New Zealand batsman will begin his third spell with the White Rose at Edgbaston tomorrow in a crucial NatWest T20 Blast clash with Birmingham Bears.

He has made 29 appearances across all forms for Yorkshire, in 2013 and 2014, scoring 1,354 runs.

Williamson’s most prolific format for Yorkshire has been the Championship, with nine fifties and one hundred in a haul of 1,032 runs from 14 matches.

The right-hander has only played five T20 matches for the Vikings, scoring 93 runs.

Yorkshire go into tomorrow’s match against the 2014 champions with a winless record from three Blast matches, and they desperately need a win on the board.

In all limited overs cricket this year, they have lost four successive matches.

"We're looking forward to having Kane around for the next six weeks or so,” said Moxon, Yorkshire’s director of professional cricket.

"I think we need a bit of a boost from somewhere. So having him around will hopefully give us that bit of experience and know-how. I think it is good timing for us.

"We just need to bat better, that's the bottom line.

“Hopefully his quality and experience will rub off on the other players as well as getting us a few runs, individually, at the same time.

"Quality overseas players are bound to make a difference to any side, and it's good timing that we've got Kane coming in.”

Since the last time Williamson played for Yorkshire towards the end of 2014, his career has rocketed.

He has scored 10 international hundreds in that period - six in Tests and four in one-day internationals.

In total, since debuting in 2010, he has scored 13 Test centuries and seven in ODIs.

Most notably, earlier this year, he replaced Brendon McCullum as New Zealand’s captain in all three formats on a full-time basis.

“His career's gone from strength to strength,” said Moxon, who compared the Northern Districts man to Yorkshire’s England star Joe Root in the sense that they can adapt seamlessly to batting in all formats.

“He's one of the best batsmen in the world, and he has done quite nicely for himself.

"Any one-day batsman needs to find a method of how to play in those formats.

“He's got a very clear method of how he goes about batting in T20 and one-day cricket. Predominantly he plays good cricket shots and trusts that method.

"Kane and Rooty and very similar types of players. It's a great skill they have.”

Williamson’s most recent cricket commitment was in the Indian Premier League last month with eventual champions Sunrisers Hyderabad.

He scored 124 runs in six matches with one fifty.

Yorkshire wicketkeeper Andrew Hodd agrees with Moxon that Williamson will boost the Vikings.

“It’s a different level of confidence with Kane,” he added.

“We all know he’s a class act, and there is a degree of ‘Kane’s at the crease, everything is going to be alright’.

“When you have someone who is that good, it can only rub off on people and settle them down.”