Czekaj vows to his nightmare A seizure on the pitch, a broken thumb and the coach’s cold shoulder... but ex-Wales winger is determined to start afresh

Tait for the second part of the campaign which begins on May 26 against Surrey at the Kia Oval.

“It’s speculation at the moment, but Dale would make any team better,” said Croft. “He is one of the greatest fast bowlers to ever play the game and every team we would like to see him in their line-up. “So, we will wait and see.” Steyn is currently involved with the Gujarat Lions in the Indian Premier League which finishes with the final on May 29, three days after Glamorgan’s opening T20 match in London and three days before the first home game against Essex in Cardiff.

Glamorgan’s championship match with Worcestershire ended in a draw after the final two days were rained off. FROM suffering a seizure on the pitch to kicking his heels in the stand, it’s been a pretty torrid two years for Chris Czekaj out in France.

But as befits someone who fought back from a horrific leg fracture to play for Wales again, he is not about to give up the ghost having been released by Colomiers.

The 30-year-old former Cardiff Blues winger is convinced he still has five or six years good rugby left in him and that he would be an asset for one of the Welsh regions.

It was in the summer of 2014 that the nine-times capped Czekaj left Cardiff for the south of France in the hope of opening an exciting new chapter in his career.

But, by his own admission, it has been a tough time, with injury and non-selection combining to leave him with very limited opportunities.

“The rugby has not gone very well at all,” he conceded.

No sooner had he begun life with the Division Two team than he was knocked off track by the most alarming of incidents.

“It was my second game for the club at home to Carcassonne,” he recalls.

“A kick went up and I was looking at the ball when someone went straight into the side of my head.

“It was a pretty severe knock-out. I was unconscious for about 20 minutes and I was seizuring on the pitch, like I was fitting.

“I was out cold, so I don’t really remember any of it. But it was very tough for my family. My parents were there at the game, with my wife Kat. It must have been horrible for them.”

It was an incident which was to take some getting over.

“I couldn’t do anything for about a month,” he said.

“Things just didn’t feel usual. I was getting a few headaches and for two or three weeks I wasn’t myself.

“I could tell I was being more angry.

“It was pretty scary and not a nice thing to go through.”

But, as Czekaj was to discover, such events are not without precedent in the rough and tumble world of French club rugby.

“It’s a lot more physical out here,” he explained.

“There are a lot more people having knock-outs and things like that.

“In my first year, it seemed like every game someone had a head injury.”

Having recovered from his concussion, Czekaj then suffered another setback when he broke his thumb around Christmas time and was restricted to about ten matches in his first season.

But, if anything, opportunities have been even more limited this term, when he has played just five times for the senior side, all at fullback.

“This year there have been no injuries, but I’ve just not been picked,” he said.

“The coaches over here really favour the French players in terms of selection.

“The games I have played, I feel I have played well.

“But they pick me for one match and then go back to the guy they normally select, who has been here for years.

“It means I’ve never had a run of games.

“I think three matches is the most I’ve played in a row since I’ve been here.”

Czekaj, who was on a two-year contract, could tell the writing was on the wall midway through this second campaign at the club.

“Half way through this season, I could tell there was nothing for me