Fast bowler Gus Atkinson Compounds the English team's Injury Concerns.
'Major setback' for the English camp after Atkinson is forced off due to a hamstring issue.
The pace bowler further complicated the injury concerns plaguing England when he left the field early on day two of the Boxing Day Test versus the Australians.
The pace bowler experienced discomfort in his left hamstring immediately following a delivery in his spell on Saturday.
The England team indicated Atkinson had experienced "tightness" and required time away from the action to undergo evaluation "over the next few hours".
The series decider in this Ashes battle at the SCG gets underway at the end of the week.
The visitors have previously lost key quicks 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.
The seamer had a tough time during the first two matches, claiming a mere three wickets.
He was dropped for the Adelaide match, before being recalled for the Boxing Day match in the playing XI.
The county bowler showed better form in Melbourne, bagging two scalps in Australia's first innings, then making 28 as a batsman among just a trio of teammates who passed ten runs.
Post a single over late on the first day, he returned the next day and removed Scott Boland Scott Boland caught behind.
Yet, on the final ball of that over, he bowled a variation to the batsman and promptly felt at his leg.
Atkinson was brought back for the Boxing Day Test after being left out the previous Test.
