🔗 Share this article Paceman Atkinson Adds to the English team's Injury Concerns. 'Significant concern' for the English camp as Atkinson leaves the field suffering a hamstring problem. The English seamer added to the injury concerns plaguing England upon exiting the field during Saturday's play in the Melbourne Test versus the Australians. The pace bowler pulled up with his left hamstring immediately following a delivery of the fourth over on Saturday. Team management stated the 27-year-old had experienced "tightness" and required time away from the action in order to be assessed "over the next few hours". The concluding match of the tour beginning on 4 January gets underway this coming Sunday. The English side has been without fast bowlers one seamer to a knee injury and another paceman with an abdominal strain on the current trip. Matthew Fisher was added to the party as cover for Wood. His form was underwhelming early in the series, claiming a mere a handful of scalps. He was dropped for the Adelaide match, only to be brought back for the Melbourne Test to fill the void. Atkinson improved at the MCG, bagging two scalps with the ball, then making 28 while batting as one of just three teammates to get into double digits. After bowling one over at the end of day one, he resumed on Saturday morning and had nightwatchman taken by the wicketkeeper. Yet, towards the conclusion of the fifth over, he delivered a slower ball to the batsman and suddenly grabbed his left hamstring. Gus Atkinson was brought back for the fourth Ashes Test after being left out the previous Test.