ST JOHN'S�Sea­soned left-arm spin­ner Niki­ta Miller has been named to re­place Sunil Nar­ine in the West In­dies World Cup squad.

The 32-year-old Ja­maican has not played for West In­dies in near­ly a year but has the ex­pe­ri­ence of 45 One-Day In­ter­na­tion­als, where he has tak­en 40 wick­ets.

In the re­cent Su­per50 tour­na­ment, Miller took just six wick­ets at an av­er­age of 15, as Ja­maica went out in the se­mi-fi­nals.

Nar­ine was named in the World Cup squad ear­li­er this month but pulled out on Tues­day, cit­ing the need to con­tin­ue work on his bowl­ing.

The cham­pi­on off-spin­ner has been do­ing re­me­di­al work on his bowl­ing ever since be­ing re­port­ed for hav­ing a sus­pect­ed il­le­gal ac­tion dur­ing the Cham­pi­ons League Twen­ty20 in Sep­tem­ber last year.

West In­dies are cur­rent­ly en route from South Africa to the World Cup, which is set to bowl off in Aus­tralia and New Zealand next month.

They have been in­stalled in Group B which in­cludes Ire­land, Pak­istan, Zim­bab­we, South Africa, In­dia and Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates.

The World Cup runs from Feb­ru­ary 14th to March 29th.

Mean­while, the West In­dies have been slapped with a fine by the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil, for their slow over rate dur­ing Wednes­day's loss to South Africa in the fifth and fi­nal One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al.

Match ref­er­ee Chris Broad found that the Caribbean side were two overs short of their tar­get at the cut off time for the in­nings at Su­per­Sport Park.

While the play­ers were slapped with a 20 per cent fine of their match fee, new cap­tain Ja­son Hold­er will have to part with 40 per cent.

Ac­cord­ing to ICC reg­u­la­tions, play­ers are fined 10 per cent of their match fee for every over their side fails to bowl in the al­lot­ted time. The cap­tain is fined dou­ble.

West In­dies went down by 131 runs in the game which was re­duced to 42 overs per side be­cause of rain which de­layed the start.

South Africa won the se­ries 4-1.