Seamer Atkinson Compounds the English team's Injury Problems.
'Serious blow' for the English camp as Atkinson leaves the field suffering a hamstring problem.
The pace bowler further complicated the injury concerns plaguing England after leaving the ground on the second morning in the Melbourne Test in the Ashes series.
The pace bowler pulled up with his left leg post-delivery in his spell at the MCG.
Team management indicated Atkinson felt some "soreness" and required time on the sidelines to undergo evaluation "during the day".
The final Test in this Ashes battle beginning on 4 January gets underway on Sunday, 4 January.
The visitors have already lost strike bowlers one seamer to a knee injury and Jofra Archer because of a side injury during this series.
A replacement bowler was brought into the squad as injury reinforcement.
Atkinson struggled during the first two matches, claiming a mere three wickets.
He was left out of the third Test, before being recalled for the fourth Test as Archer's replacement.
Surrey's Atkinson improved at the MCG, taking two wickets with the ball, before adding 28 as a batsman among just a trio of teammates who passed ten runs.
After bowling one over late on the first day, he resumed for the second day's play and removed Scott Boland edging to the keeper.
Yet, towards the conclusion of the fifth over, he sent down a variation to the batsman and immediately felt his left hamstring.
Atkinson was brought back for the fourth Ashes Test following his omission of the third.
