🔗 Share this article Paceman Atkinson Exacerbates the English team's Injury Problems. 'Significant concern' for the English camp after Atkinson is forced off due to a hamstring issue. The English seamer added to England's injury problems upon exiting the field early on day two of the fourth Ashes Test in the Ashes series. The pace bowler pulled up with his hamstring immediately following a delivery that he bowled on Saturday. Team management indicated Atkinson had experienced "tightness" and was to take time away from the action to undergo evaluation "over the next few hours". The concluding match of the series beginning on 4 January starts on Sunday, 4 January. The visitors have been without strike bowlers one seamer with a knee problem and another paceman because of a side injury during this series. Matthew Fisher was called up to provide backup. The seamer had a tough time 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 as Archer's replacement. The county bowler showed better form in Melbourne, claiming a couple of wickets in Australia's first innings, then making 28 as a batsman as one of just three England players who passed ten runs. After bowling one over late on the first day, he returned the next day and had nightwatchman Scott Boland caught behind. Unfortunately, towards the conclusion of the fifth over, he bowled a variation to Travis Head and suddenly grabbed his left hamstring. Gus Atkinson was brought back for the fourth Ashes Test having missed of the third.