Janeiro Tucker has ruled out the possibility of coming out of Cup Match retirement.

Shortly after being officially named as the 2016 Cup Match MVP at yesterday’s award ceremony at sponsor Stevedoring Services Limited, Tucker stuck by his original decision to bow out, which he announced leading up to this year’s classic.

“I am officially retired,” Tucker said. “That’s it, there’s no need to come back out.”

The Somerset stalwart bowed out in style, scoring a patient and disciplined 113 in an innings spanning nearly two sessions to become the first batsman to score five centuries in Cup Match.

It was also the all-rounder’s first hundred in Somerset in what was his 21st Cup Match appearance.

Tucker won the MVP award for an unprecedented sixth time after beating out the likes of Allan Douglas Jr, the St George’s all-rounder, who scored an aggressive 77, claimed five wickets and earned the Safe Hands Award.

“To leave with a hundred and the MVP award, for me, that’s a fairytale ending,” Tucker said. “You can’t ask for nothing more.”

The son of John Tucker, the former Somerset Cup Match captain, admitted he will miss being on the big stage at Wellington Oval next summer.

“Of course I will miss it, and probably the first year will be hard,” Tucker said. “But I am looking to enjoy myself down St George’s next year as a fan.”

Alfred Maybury, the Somerset Cricket Club president, who also attended yesterday’s award ceremony, suggested that Tucker may have a future role to play at Somerset.

“I am certain that we will probably have him around in the area of coaching maybe or somehow involved,” Maybury said.

“Like anybody else, we would have loved for him to have played a few more years, but we understand where he is and the best thing to do is leave when you are on top.

“We said right from the start that Janeiro exits on his terms because he deserves that and earned that and that’s what he’s done.

“Janeiro scored his first century in Somerset, he’s MVP and so he goes out on top. That’s a great thing and I wouldn’t want anything less because he deserves it.

“His commitment to Cup Match and the game you can’t take from him.”

Presenting Tucker with various prizes, including a $1,500 gift certificate for international travel as well as a $500 gift certificate for cricket, or any other sporting gear, was Warren Jones, CEO Polaris Holding Co Ltd, the parent company of award sponsor Stevedoring Services Limited.

“As a St George’s fan I am glad to see Janeiro go because he always comes through one way,” Jones said. “You might get him out with the ball but then he comes back and takes a wicket or catches.

“You can never say goodbye to him in a game and feel like it’s over.”

Tucker bows out of Cup Match with multiple records under his belt, including the most runs (1,487) and highest innings (186) which he achieved at Wellington Oval in 2001.