🔗 Share this article Seamer Gus Atkinson Compounds England's Injury Worries. 'Significant concern' for the touring side after Atkinson goes off with a hamstring injury. The English seamer further complicated England's injury problems when he left the ground during Saturday's play of the Boxing Day Test in the Ashes series. The pace bowler pulled up with his left leg post-delivery in his spell during the morning session. The England team reported the 27-year-old reported "discomfort" and was to take time away from the action to undergo evaluation "over the next few hours". The series decider in this Ashes battle at the SCG begins this coming Sunday. The English side has already lost strike bowlers one seamer with a knee problem and another paceman because of a side injury during this series. A replacement bowler was added to the party to provide backup. His form was underwhelming early in the series, claiming a mere a handful of scalps. He was dropped from the previous Test, then recalled for the fourth Test as Archer's replacement. The county bowler performed better in the fourth Test, claiming a couple of wickets during the host's first knock, before adding 28 with the bat as one of just three England players to get into double digits. After bowling one over at the end of day one, he resumed on Saturday morning and had nightwatchman Scott Boland caught behind. Yet, towards the conclusion of that over, he delivered a slower ball to the batsman and suddenly grabbed at his leg. Gus Atkinson returned to the side for the fourth Ashes Test after being left out of the third.