Seamer Gus Atkinson Exacerbates England's Injury Problems.
'Significant concern' for the English camp after Atkinson leaves the field due to a hamstring issue.
The pace bowler further complicated the injury concerns plaguing England when he left the field during Saturday's play of the Boxing Day Test versus the Australians.
The right-arm seamer felt a problem in his left leg after the final ball of the fourth over on Saturday.
The England team reported the 27-year-old had experienced "tightness" and required time away from the action to undergo evaluation "in the coming hours".
The series decider in this Ashes battle at the SCG gets underway on Sunday, 4 January.
The visitors have been without strike bowlers Mark Wood to a knee injury and Jofra Archer to a side strain on this Ashes tour.
A replacement bowler was brought into the squad as injury reinforcement.
Atkinson struggled early in the series, managing only a handful of scalps.
He was dropped for the Adelaide match, only to be brought back for the Boxing Day match in the playing XI.
The county bowler showed better form in Melbourne, taking two wickets with the ball, before adding 28 as a batsman as one of just three England players who passed ten runs.
After bowling one over at the end of day one, he came back the next day and had nightwatchman Scott Boland caught behind.
Yet, at the end of his spell, he bowled a slower ball to Travis Head and promptly felt his left hamstring.
Atkinson returned to the side for the Melbourne match having missed the previous Test.
