Umpire Perera acknowledged the gap on the pictures and continued to review the evidence again, while Matthews awaited her fate. Eventually, Perera decided that there was enough evidence to show there was indeed contact and advised the on-field umpires to reverse their original not out decision.

Matthews remonstrated with on-field umpires Janani and Eloise Sheridan before leaving the field, clearly unhappy at the decision that was made, and continued to show her displeasure on the sidelines, watching the dismissal back on the West Indies bench alongside head coach Shane Deitz, before being seen in discussion with reserve umpire Kerrin Klaaste outside the boundary’s edge.

On the host broadcast, Ebony Rainford-Brent said that the commentary team had not heard a noise on the stump microphone. After the match, Matthews said she did not believe that she had hit the ball, and believed the noise had come from another source.

“When I cut at the ball, I heard something which I thought was probably my bat handle or something like that, and I immediately went to the on-field umpires and told them that I heard a noise”, Matthews explained in her post-match press conference. “I certainly felt like I was far away from the ball, and I let them know what the case was, but the third umpire obviously has a decision to make.

“I felt like you could have seen a clear gap between bat and ball, but at the same time, [the TV umpire] has got to work with the technology that there is, and she saw a spike, and at the end of the day, I’m going to have to respect that.”

After making 48 in West Indies’ opening victory against New Zealand, Matthews has since not looked at her best with the bat, having registered scores of 14 off 22 against Scotland, 17 off 17 against Sri Lanka, and 14 off 17 against England.

“I need to get some runs. Deandra [Dottin] probably feels like she hasn’t been at her best either, and yet we’re still winning games, we’re still competing,” Matthews said.

“I think it’s a really good sign because I think at one time we would probably struggle to win a lot of these games without myself or Deandra performing really well. The fact that I’ve been struggling, she’s been struggling, Chinelle [Henry] has only really gotten a score in today. When we’re still in the position we are, it shows that we’ve got a lot more people that we’re relying on now.”

West Indies remain in second place in Group 2 with three wins in four matches, behind hosts England who have confirmed their place in the semi-finals. Victory for West Indies in their final group match against Ireland on Saturday would confirm their qualification for the last four, while defeat would open the door for New Zealand and Sri Lanka to go above West Indies on net run rate if they win their final fixtures.