West Indies captain Hayley Matthews said her side is “still not quite firing with the bat” after suffering a 35-run defeat to England at the ICC T20 World Cup on Wednesday.

The loss in the top-of-the-table Group Two clash denied the West Indies Women an opportunity to secure an automatic semifinal berth with a game to spare, but qualification remains within reach ahead of Saturday’s clash with Ireland.

“It’s all in our hands and I think the fact that it is all in our hands puts us in a wonderful position. I think coming into this World Cup, if you’d said to us we just have to beat Ireland in the last match and we’d have a semifinal spot, we’d have grabbed the opportunity with both hands,” Matthews said in a post match interview.