Fast bowler Gus Atkinson Adds to England's Fitness Concerns.
'Serious blow' for the English camp as Atkinson is forced off suffering a hamstring problem.
Gus Atkinson further complicated the injury concerns plaguing England after leaving the playing area during Saturday's play of the Boxing Day Test in the Ashes series.
Atkinson pulled up with his left hamstring immediately following a delivery that he bowled at the MCG.
Team management stated the 27-year-old felt some "soreness" and required time off the field for further assessment "in the coming hours".
The final Test of the tour in Sydney gets underway at the end of the week.
The English side has already lost key quicks one seamer with a knee problem and Jofra Archer to a side strain during this series.
A replacement bowler was added to the party to provide backup.
Atkinson struggled during the first two matches, taking just a handful of scalps.
He was left out for the Adelaide match, only to be brought back for the Boxing Day match in the playing XI.
The county bowler performed better in the fourth Test, bagging two scalps in Australia's first innings, before adding 28 with the bat being one of only three England players to reach double figures.
Post a single over late on the first day, he came back the next day and dismissed the nightwatchman Scott Boland caught behind.
Yet, on the final ball of the fifth over, he sent down a change of pace to the batsman and immediately felt at his leg.
Gus Atkinson was brought back for the Boxing Day Test after being left out the previous Test.