Fast bowler Gus Atkinson Compounds the English team's Fitness Problems.
'Major setback' for the touring side as Atkinson goes off with a hamstring injury.
The English seamer increased the fitness woes of the England squad after leaving the field on the second morning in the Melbourne Test versus the Australians.
The right-arm seamer pulled up with his hamstring post-delivery that he bowled during the morning session.
The touring camp indicated the 27-year-old felt some "soreness" and required time away from the action in order to be assessed "over the next few hours".
The concluding match of the series beginning on 4 January begins on Sunday, 4 January.
England have been without key quicks one seamer to a knee injury and another paceman to a side strain on the current trip.
A replacement bowler was brought into the squad as injury reinforcement.
The seamer had a tough time early in the series, managing only a handful of scalps.
He was left out from the previous Test, then recalled for the Boxing Day match in the playing XI.
Atkinson performed better in the fourth Test, taking two wickets in Australia's first innings, and scoring 28 runs while batting among just a trio of English batsmen who passed ten runs.
Following a brief spell at the end of day one, he returned the next day and dismissed the nightwatchman Scott Boland caught behind.
Unfortunately, at the end of the fifth over, he bowled a change of pace to Travis Head and immediately felt for his hamstring.
The English bowler was recalled for the Boxing Day Test having missed of the third.
