Cardiff Blues have announced that prop Gethin Jenkins will return to the club from Toulon at the end of the season.

The 32-year-old, who has earned 96 caps for Wales, left the club last summer to pen a two-year contract with the French outfit.

Director of rugby Phil Davies told the club's official website: "I am really pleased to have re-signed Gethin. We started the year knowing we had a young squad and it has been a massive season of progression, sometimes the results have not gone our way.

"Gethin will be coming back to an environment that is a little different from the one he left and I think, hopefully, he will enjoy it and I know that he will add a massive amount to the group. I have heard how professional he is and I am really looking forward to working with him and welcoming him back to the Blues."

Jenkins has struggled in Toulon to fight Andrew Sheridan for a place in the side.