Sarwan had been dropped from the side for the rain–spoilt trip to Sri Lanka late last year, following concerns about his health and his fitness.
The 30-year-old batsman has however, dispelled all questions about his health and his fitness in the last three months, following his injury-free participation in the regional one-day competition and ongoing Caribbean Twenty20 Championship.
The World Cup team will be led by Darren Sammy and also includes fast-bowling allrounder Andre Russell, who is yet to make his ODI debut.
Sammy took over from Chris Gayle last year.
Gayle, Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard, three players who turned down contracts with the West Indies Cricket Board, all feature in the squad following their participation in the WICB one-day tournament last year.
Nikita Miller and Sulieman Benn are the two specialist spinners, both left-arm orthodox, while Russell, Kemar Roach and Ravi Rampaul make up the pace options.
Carlton Baugh was preferred over Denesh Ramdin as wicketkeeper.
Baugh has not played an ODI for West Indies since November 2008, but impressed with a half-century in the second Test in Sri Lanka.
Sarwan hasn't played Tests in more than a year, and was not offered a WICB contract last year.
In the WICB one-day tournament, he averaged 21.33 in three games with one-half-century for Guyana and his team was knocked out in the league stage.
However, he has an excellent ODI record in India, where West Indies play five of their six group games.
He has played 15 matches there with an average of 57.30 and five half-centuries.
West Indies squad:
- Darren Sammy (capt),
- Chris Gayle
- Dwayne Bravo
- Darren Bravo
- Kieron Pollard
- Ramnaresh Sarwan
- Devon Smith
- Sulieman Benn
- Nikita Miller
- Carlton Baugh (wk)
- Andre Rusell
- Ravi Rampaul
- Kemar Roach
- Shivnarine Chanderpaul
- Adrian Barath
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