🔗 Share this article Seamer Atkinson Adds to the English team's Fitness Problems. 'Serious blow' for the touring side after Atkinson goes off suffering a hamstring problem. The English seamer increased England's injury problems after leaving the ground during Saturday's play of the fourth Ashes Test against Australia. The pace bowler felt a problem in his left hamstring immediately following a delivery that he bowled on Saturday. Team management stated Atkinson felt some "soreness" and required time on the sidelines for further assessment "during the day". The series decider of the tour at the SCG begins this coming Sunday. The visitors have already lost strike bowlers one seamer due to knee trouble and another paceman because of a side injury on this Ashes tour. A replacement bowler was brought into the squad as injury reinforcement. The seamer had a tough time during the first two matches, claiming a mere three wickets. He was left out from the previous Test, then recalled for the Boxing Day match as Archer's replacement. The county bowler improved at the MCG, bagging two scalps with the ball, before adding 28 while batting among just a trio of English batsmen to reach double figures. After bowling one over late on the first day, he returned on Saturday morning and dismissed the nightwatchman Scott Boland caught behind. However, at the end of his spell, he delivered a change of pace to the batsman and immediately felt for his hamstring. The English bowler returned to the side for the fourth Ashes Test after being left out the Adelaide game.