Seamer Gus Atkinson Exacerbates the English team's Injury Worries.
'Significant concern' for the English camp after Atkinson leaves the field with a hamstring injury.
The pace bowler increased the injury concerns plaguing England when he left the playing area early on day two in the Melbourne Test versus the Australians.
The pace bowler felt a problem in his hamstring post-delivery that he bowled during the morning session.
Team management reported Atkinson felt some "soreness" and would spend time away from the action in order to be assessed "during the day".
The series decider of the tour in Sydney begins at the end of the week.
The visitors have previously lost strike bowlers one seamer with a knee problem and another paceman because of a side injury on this Ashes tour.
A replacement bowler was added to the party to provide backup.
The seamer had a tough time early in the series, claiming a mere three wickets.
He was omitted of the third Test, only to be brought back for the fourth Test as Archer's replacement.
Atkinson showed better form in Melbourne, taking two wickets during the host's first knock, before adding 28 with the bat as one of just three England players who passed ten runs.
After bowling one over in Australia's second innings, he resumed on Saturday morning and dismissed the nightwatchman Scott Boland caught behind.
However, on the final ball of his spell, he delivered a change of pace to Travis Head and immediately felt for his hamstring.
Atkinson was brought back for the Melbourne match following his omission of the third.
