After taking 34 innings in his first six Assessments, England decided to control Atkinson's task.
As England prepare to control his task following a summertime where he placed himself in the top five fast bowlers for the Test part, they have withdrawn Gus Atkinson from their 50-over squad to encounter Australia later this month.
Atkinson made his Test album in July, taking 12 innings in the match against West Indies at Lord's to total 34 innings. Through the set that included back-to-back Testing against West Indies and Sri Lanka, he and Chris Woakes were the consistently strong bowlers.
Atkinson showed promise in the latter stages of the Sri Lanka line, and he spent day off the field with a strong triple on time three, even though he was deemed healthy enough to bowl 11 overs in the third innings, taking one of the two Sri Lanka wickets to drop.
Olly Stone joining the club in his place after the England control chose to sleep him for their five international matches against Australia.
England are due to travel to Pakistan at the end of the September, back of a three-Test trip, and then go to New Zealand in November for three-more Testing. After retiring Stuart Broad and James Anderson, they will already be without Mark Wood, who will be up for the rest of the time due to an elbow injury. They have been working on reshaping the hole attack this summers.
" I think he's okay", England's stand-in Test captain, Ollie Pope, said of Atkinson. " He's evidently got a couple weeks off today just to update and move forward. He's able to put his feet up today, but I think the way he bowled now and simply chatting to him, he really feels like it feels better now than it did when he first felt it so that's a good for us. Fingers crossed he's all great".
The little turn until England begin their autumn touring commitments in Pakistan, as well as a schedule that will view them sing six more Tests before Christmas- with a white-ball trip to the Caribbean sandwiched in between- means player management will be at the forefront of the ECB's thinking. Aside from Stone, five players who were involved against Sri Lanka are also in the ODI squad: Harry Brook, Ben Duckett, Josh Hull, Matt Potts and Jamie Smith.
Pope was confident there would be no issues motivating the side for Pakistan, where Ben Stokes is hoping to be fit enough to resume duties as captain.
" Obviously, it's different from the fast bowlers ' batting perspective, but I think they'll have a few weeks off to recharge and prepare for that," Pope said. " And I think pulling an England shirt on is the greatest honour, so I do n't think there needs to be much more motivation.
" We love touring as a team and everything's a new, exciting challenge. So I think from that point of view, that's fine. Although it's a short turnaround, I believe our team loves every second of it whenever we have the chance to put on an England shirt. So that wo n't be an issue getting up for that. There'll be a lot of excitement come the time ago to Pakistan."
England ODI squad to play Australia: Jos Buttler ( capt ), Jofra Archer, Jacob Bethell, Harry Brook, Brydon Carse, Jordan Cox, Ben Duckett, Josh Hull, Will Jacks, Matthew Potts, Adil Rashid, Phil Salt, Jamie Smith, Olly Stone, Reece Topley, John Turner
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