Fast bowler Gus Atkinson Adds to the English team's Injury Concerns.
'Major setback' for the English camp as Atkinson goes off due to a hamstring issue.
The pace bowler added to the injury concerns plaguing England upon exiting the playing area during Saturday's play of the Boxing Day Test in the Ashes series.
The pace bowler experienced discomfort in his left hamstring immediately following a delivery in his spell at the MCG.
The England team stated Atkinson had experienced "tightness" and required time on the sidelines in order to be assessed "over the next few hours".
The series decider of the series at the SCG gets underway at the end of the week.
The English side has been without key quicks one seamer to a knee injury and Jofra Archer with an abdominal strain on the current trip.
Matthew Fisher was added to the party as injury reinforcement.
The seamer had a tough time in the opening two Tests, claiming a mere a handful of scalps.
He was dropped of the third Test, before being recalled for the fourth Test as Archer's replacement.
The county bowler showed better form in Melbourne, bagging two scalps with the ball, before adding 28 as a batsman being one of only three English batsmen to reach double figures.
Post a single over at the end of day one, he came back the next day and had nightwatchman Scott Boland caught behind.
However, on the final ball of the fifth over, he bowled a change of pace to Travis Head and promptly felt at his leg.
The English bowler returned to the side for the Melbourne match after being left out of the third.
