🔗 Share this article Seamer Atkinson Compounds the English team's Fitness Worries. 'Serious blow' for the English camp as Atkinson is forced off suffering a hamstring problem. Gus Atkinson increased the injury concerns plaguing England when he left the ground during Saturday's play in the Melbourne Test versus the Australians. The pace bowler felt a problem in his left leg after the final ball that he bowled at the MCG. The England team indicated the 27-year-old had experienced "tightness" and was to take time away from the action for further assessment "during the day". The series decider in this Ashes battle beginning on 4 January begins at the end of the week. The English side has already lost strike bowlers Mark Wood to a knee injury and Jofra Archer with an abdominal strain on the current trip. A replacement bowler was added to the party as injury reinforcement. The seamer had a tough time during the first two matches, claiming a mere three wickets. He was left out of the third Test, before being recalled for the Boxing Day match as Archer's replacement. Surrey's Atkinson improved at the MCG, taking two wickets during the host's first knock, and scoring 28 runs while batting being one of only three English batsmen to reach double figures. Following a brief spell at the end of day one, he returned the next day and had nightwatchman taken by the wicketkeeper. Unfortunately, on the final ball of his spell, he delivered a slower ball to Travis Head and suddenly grabbed at his leg. Gus Atkinson returned to the side for the Boxing Day Test following his omission the previous Test.