"Hopefully it spurs the West indies and the entire Caribbean to put more into women’s cricket," she said.

Barbados beat Pakistan by 15 runs in their opening match, but lost by nine wickets against the powerful Australians in their second encounter.

Last night, in a winner take all match for the remaining semi-final place, Barbados lost by 100 runs to India.

"We’ve learned a lot throughout these three Games.

"I think it has done so much for the players, obviously getting an experience playing against the best teams and best players in the world to grow and learn so much," Matthews insisted.

"They have only spent a little bit of time out in the field but it has been really good for them - it is going to help so much with how we move forward in the Caribbean with cricket."

Organisers have confirmed that cricket is also to be part of the programme at the Victoria 2026 Commonwealth Games.

"It has definitely given our regional tournament in the Caribbean a bit more to play for," Matthews suggested.

"Within the next couple of years we will definitely see all the other teams coming really hard Barbados included, so we all really look forward to that.

"We hope that we can be the team to qualify and put on an even better performance than we did this year."