It was never say never for the wicketkeeper-batter. While most of his comebacks were largely successful, his return to Test cricket after eight years in 2018 was not. On the back of his stunning white-ball returns and a consistent run with the bat for Tamil Nadu in domestic cricket, Karthik forced his way back into the Test side as regular stumper Wriddhiman Saha got injured. He played three Test matches -- one against Afghanistan at home and two in England -- and scored just 25 runs in five innings, including two ducks. After four failures in Birmingham and at Lord's, India decided to hand a debut to young keeper-batter Rishabh Pant in the third Test. Pant would go on to hit a century in the fourth Test at the Oval, cementing his spot as the specialist keeper-batter. The second Test of that 2018 tour of England at Lord's turned out to be Karthik's last in red-ball cricket. He did make two more comebacks in white-ball cricket but his Test career came to an end in 2018. Karthik finished with 1025 runs in 26 Tests. His only century came against Bangladesh in Mirpur in 2007. Seven years later, Karthik is once again in England, but this time, as a broadcaster. Ahead of the third instalment of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy at Lord's, Karthik recalled his final appearance in the Indian whites at the same venue. Dinesh Karthik embarrasses Ravi Shastri with his Test retirement story During a podcast for SKY Sports that included Karthik, Ravi Shastri, Nasser Husain and Michael Atherton, the former India keeper-batter, who retired last year, said that then-Indian head coach Ravi Shastri told him he was done. "There's not much in common between me and Nass and I'd like to keep it that way. He finished at Lord's. I finished at Lord's. The only difference was that he went and knocked on the coach's doors, saying I think I'm done. In my case, the coach came in and said, 'Don't bother coming in the next Test, you are done," Karthik said, followed by hearty laughs from the panellists.