He also incidentally played alongside Fiachra during the 2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup where he played a crucial knock of 57 in a losing cause during a group stage match against eventual runners-up India, his knock received attention from the then Indian Under-19 head coach and former Indian cricketer Rahul Dravid.
[12] In July 2019, Tucker was selected to play for the Dublin Chiefs in the inaugural edition of the Euro T20 Slam cricket tournament.
[19] In June 2023 Tucker was signed by the Colombo Strikers for the 2023 edition of the Lanka Premier League,[20] however he did not play in the competition.
[22] In January 2017, he was called up as a replacement for the injured Stuart Thompson for Ireland's squad in the 2017 Desert T20 Challenge.
[24][25] At the same time, he was also named in Ireland's Test, One Day International (ODI) and T20I squads for their series against Afghanistan in India, but he did not play during the tour.
[27] In June 2019, Tucker was named in the Ireland Wolves squad for their home series against the Scotland A cricket team.
[29] In September 2019, Tucker was named in Ireland's squad for the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier tournament in the United Arab Emirates.
[32][33] Tucker did not play in the series as after a poor run of form he had been replaced by Neil Rock as first-choice wicketkeeper.
[50][51][52] In February 2023, Tucker was named in Ireland's Test squad for their tours of Bangladesh in March 2023 and Sri Lanka in April 2023.
[59] He also became only the second wicket-keeper batsman to score Test century on debut in away soil after England's Ben Foakes.
He also became the first wicket-keeper batter to score a century in his team's second innings of his debut Test match while the other five keeper batters including Sri Lanka's Brendon Kuruppu, Romesh Kaluwitharana, England's Matt Prior, New Zealand's Tom Blundell and England's Ben Foakes all scored centuries on their debuts in their teams first innings.