Fast bowler Atkinson Exacerbates the English team's Injury Concerns.
'Major setback' for the touring side as Atkinson goes off with a hamstring injury.
The pace bowler added to the injury concerns plaguing England upon exiting the field during Saturday's play in the Melbourne Test against Australia.
The right-arm seamer pulled up with his hamstring immediately following a delivery in his spell on Saturday.
Team management indicated the 27-year-old reported "discomfort" and required time off the field for further assessment "during the day".
The series decider in this Ashes battle in Sydney gets underway at the end of the week.
The English side has already lost strike bowlers one seamer due to knee trouble and Jofra Archer to a side strain on this Ashes tour.
Matthew Fisher was added to the party as cover for Wood.
Atkinson struggled during the first two matches, claiming a mere a handful of scalps.
He was omitted from the previous Test, then recalled for the Boxing Day match in the playing XI.
The county bowler showed better form in Melbourne, bagging two scalps with the ball, then making 28 while batting among just a trio of English batsmen who passed ten runs.
After bowling one over at the end of day one, he came back the next day and had nightwatchman taken by the wicketkeeper.
Yet, on the final ball of that over, he bowled a change of pace to the batsman and immediately felt for his hamstring.
The English bowler was brought back for the fourth Ashes Test following his omission the previous Test.
