However, The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) will have less than three months to put together a submission.
Compliance documents must be lodged with the International Cricket Council (ICC) by the end of this month and a decision will be made in July.
Having formally agreed this week to go ahead with the World Cup in 2011 and 2015, the ICC now wants to confirm venues for both at its annual meeting in London in the summer.
Although the second tournament is almost a decade away, the UK's Times newspaper reports that it will form part of an eight-year television deal to be put out to tender this year and begin in 2007.
