🔗 Share this article Paceman Atkinson Compounds England's Injury Worries. 'Significant concern' for the touring side as Atkinson leaves the field due to a hamstring issue. The pace bowler added to England's injury problems upon exiting the playing area early on day two of the Boxing Day Test in the Ashes series. The right-arm seamer pulled up with his left leg post-delivery of the fourth over on Saturday. Team management stated Atkinson felt some "soreness" and would spend time off the field to undergo evaluation "during the day". The final Test of the tour beginning on 4 January begins on Sunday, 4 January. The visitors have been without strike bowlers one seamer with a knee problem and Jofra Archer with an abdominal strain on the current trip. A replacement bowler was added to the party as cover for Wood. Atkinson struggled during the first two matches, taking just a handful of scalps. He was left out from the previous Test, then recalled for the fourth Test as Archer's replacement. Surrey's Atkinson performed better in the fourth Test, bagging two scalps during the host's first knock, then making 28 as a batsman as one of just three English batsmen to get into double digits. Following a brief spell in Australia's second innings, he resumed on Saturday morning and dismissed the nightwatchman Scott Boland caught behind. Unfortunately, at the end of the fifth over, he bowled a change of pace to Travis Head and immediately felt at his leg. Gus Atkinson was recalled for the Melbourne match after being left out of the third.