Seamer Atkinson Adds to the English team's Injury Problems.
'Major setback' for the English camp as Atkinson goes off with a hamstring injury.
The pace bowler increased the injury concerns plaguing England when he left the playing area during Saturday's play of the Boxing Day Test in the Ashes series.
The pace bowler experienced discomfort in his hamstring post-delivery that he bowled at the MCG.
Team management reported Atkinson reported "discomfort" and would spend time away from the action to undergo evaluation "over the next few hours".
The series decider in this Ashes battle at the SCG starts this coming Sunday.
The English side has already lost fast bowlers Mark Wood to a knee injury and Jofra Archer because of a side injury on this Ashes tour.
A replacement bowler was brought into the squad as cover for Wood.
The seamer had a tough time during the first two matches, managing only three wickets.
He was left out from the previous Test, then recalled for the fourth Test as Archer's replacement.
Surrey's Atkinson improved at the MCG, taking two wickets with the ball, and scoring 28 runs while batting as one of just three English batsmen to reach double figures.
Following a brief spell at the end of day one, he resumed the next day and dismissed the nightwatchman edging to the keeper.
However, at the end of the fifth over, he bowled a slower ball to the batsman and promptly felt his left hamstring.
Atkinson returned to the side for the fourth Ashes Test after being left out the Adelaide game.
