ST JOHN'S–West In­dies fast bowler Ravi Ram­paul will not be play­ing in the pres­ti­gious World Cup set for Aus­tralia and New Zealand next year.

The T&T crick­eter has been left out of a 30-man pro­vi­sion­al squad re­leased by the West In­dies Crick­et Board (WICB) on Mon­day.

Ram­paul played two ODIs dur­ing the tour of In­dia in Oc­to­ber be­fore the se­ries was can­celled be­cause of a dis­pute be­tween the West In­dies play­ers, the WICB and West In­dies Play­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (WIPA).

The squad al­so in­clud­ed six un­capped play­ers: left-arm seam­er Ken­roy Pe­ters, legspin­ner Im­ran Khan, off­spin­ner Ash­ley Nurse, 19-year-old fast bowler Mar­quino Mind­ley, left-hand open­er Evin Lewis and all­rounder Jonathan Carter.

Khan has been en­joy­ing a fine sea­son in the Re­gion­al four-day com­pe­ti­tion con­fus­ing bats­men with his legspin­ners. He is among the top all­rounders in the tour­na­ment so far and earned the se­lec­tion ahead of the for­mer West In­dies spin­ner De­ven­dra Bishoo of Guyana.

His coun­try­man Evin Lewis is a hard hit­ting open­er, whose at­tack­ing style has caught the eyes in both short­ened ver­sion of the game. Pe­ters has been hav­ing an out­stand­ing sea­son de­spite his team not do­ing well in the tour­na­ment while the Bar­ba­di­an Carter is a hard hit­ting mid­dle or­der bats­man and all­rounder Nurse has been out­stand­ing in the lim­it­ed overs ver­sion of the game.

Mind­ley has sur­prised many with his pace.

Re­turn­ing to the squad are Dar­ren Bra­vo who missed out on the cur­rent tour of South Africa be­cause of per­son­al rea­sons and mys­tery spin­ner Sunil Nar­ine, who has been re­me­di­al work on his bowl­ing ac­tion.

Squad

Sulie­man Benn, Car­los Brath­waite, Dar­ren Bra­vo, Dwayne Bra­vo, Jonathan Carter, Shel­don Cot­trell, Miguel Cum­mins, Nars­ingh De­onar­ine, An­dre Fletch­er, Chris Gayle, Ja­son Hold­er, Im­ran Khan, Leon John­son, Evin Lewis, Niki­ta Miller, Mar­quino Mind­ley, Sunil Nar­ine, Ash­ley Nurse, Ken­roy Pe­ters, Ver­sam­my Per­maul, Kieron Pol­lard, De­nesh Ramdin, Ke­mar Roach, An­dre Rus­sell, Dar­ren Sam­my, Mar­lon Samuels, Lendl Sim­mons, Dwayne Smith, De­von Smith, Jerome Tay­lor.