The bid will be presented to the International Cricket Council (ICC) at its Dubai offices one day before the revised deadline set by the sport's world governing body on Thursday.

"Everything is in place and we are hugely optimistic of taking the World Cup," Indian cricket board secretary Niranjan Shah said.

A rival bid by Australia and New Zealand has already been submitted to the ICC, which will discuss the two offers at a meeting of its Executive Board on April 30.

India and Pakistan have twice hosted the four-yearly World Cup: in 1987 by themselves and in 1996 with Sri Lanka.

Australia and New Zealand jointly organised the 1992 World Cup and say they have the right by rotation to host the mega-event in 2011.

The joint bid for the 2011 event proposes India hosting 22 matches, Pakistan 14, Sri Lanka nine and Bangladesh six, assuming there will be 51 games at the tournament.

Like in 1996, the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore has been put forward to organise the final while India will host the two semifinals.

India's 22 matches would be held at its eight regular Test venues, while Pakistan would use six venues.

Sri Lanka would host all its matches at two venues in Colombo, and Bangladesh listed three venues but might use only one.

The four nations want the ICC to place them in four different groups of the preliminary league so that they can play their initial matches at home.

The ICC has ruled that the bid, which loses the right for the 2011 World Cup, will host the next tournament in 2015.

The next World Cup will be held in the Caribbean in March-April 2007.