Top cricketer Janeiro Tucker has lashed out at the current state of umpiring that he claims is discouraging players from playing the sport.Tucker, who has quit as Southampton Rangers coach and retired from all forms of the game, described the current state of umpiring as “poor” and accused umpires of abusing their authority.“The officiating is in a poor state and all they (umpires) do is write everybody up but they are doing a bad job themselves,” he argued. “Some umpires are doing good jobs but others are just ridiculous and that’s why players are getting fed up with cricket.“Umpires think that just because they are in the middle they can do whatever they want and say whatever they want. The officiating is just poor and every week somebody is getting written up but it’s not the players’ fault every time. I’m not saying the players are right all the time because they are not. But sometimes the officials need to take some of the blame but they don’t.”Incidentally, Tucker is due to appear before Bermuda Cricket Board’s (BCB) disciplinary committee this week to answer multiple charges of bringing last weekend’s Premier match involving Rangers and Bailey’s Bay at Southampton Oval into disrepute.Tucker’s sudden retirement is certain to have an impact on Somerset’s Cup Match plans this year as well as Bermuda’s 2013 ICC World Cricket League Division Three commitment.Tucker said the abuse he receives from fans also factored in his decision to walk away from cricket.“People think they can just shout anything to players,” he said. “Players are getting tired of being abused by the fans and we don’t get paid to play cricket.”Tucker said declining standards have also discouraged him from being involved in the national sport.“Cricket is in a bad state,” he noted. “The standard is not sharp or at the level it used to be which is not inspiring.”Rangers have not enjoyed the best of times lately. But Tucker insists the team’s current struggles had nothing to do with his decision to walk away from cricket altogether.“That doesn’t have anything to do with it because we have won games,” he said. “We are just having little lapses which are letting us down and making us look bad.”When asked would he reconsider his decision to retire, Tucker replied: “As of now I don’t have any desire to reconsider being involved in cricket.”I’m not trying to play cricket anymore because cricket is in a bad state.”The top cricketer holds multiple records in the classic and is on the verge of surpassing Charlie Marshall as Cup Match’s all-time leading run getter.Tucker said the love of the sport means much more to him than records.“People fail to realise that I don’t play Cup Match for records ... I just play because I love the sport,” he said. “I don’t play for records and that’s what people don’t understand about me. They don’t know me and just think I’m this arrogant person who is trying to break all these records and what I’ve done in cricket is above and beyond all the records I have.”At the 2005 ICC Trophy in Ireland Tucker led Bermuda to 2007 World Cup qualification in the absence of injured skipper Clay Smith.