🔗 Share this article Seamer Gus Atkinson Compounds the English team's Injury Worries. 'Significant concern' for the English camp after Atkinson goes off suffering a hamstring problem. The English seamer added to England's injury problems after leaving the field during Saturday's play of the fourth Ashes Test in the Ashes series. The pace bowler experienced discomfort in his left hamstring post-delivery that he bowled at the MCG. The touring camp indicated the 27-year-old had experienced "tightness" and required time on the sidelines for further assessment "during the day". The series decider of the tour in Sydney starts at the end of the week. England have previously lost fast bowlers one seamer with a knee problem and another paceman because of a side injury on the current trip. A replacement bowler was added to the party as injury reinforcement. His form was underwhelming in the opening two Tests, managing only a handful of scalps. He was dropped from the previous Test, before being recalled for the fourth Test in the playing XI. Surrey's Atkinson showed better form in Melbourne, taking two wickets in Australia's first innings, then making 28 with the bat being one of only three England players to get into double digits. Following a brief spell at the end of day one, he resumed for the second day's play and removed Scott Boland taken by the wicketkeeper. Yet, at the end of that over, he delivered a change of pace to Travis Head and promptly felt for his hamstring. Atkinson was brought back for the fourth Ashes Test following his omission of the third.