A stat of how many 5-year periods have finished for us in ICC Test Championship

[fwullah]

I was reading the BBC Messege board to know what some of England fans are thinking about Bangladesh's tour to England and have come up with the following post:

BBC Board

There, the following stat is mentioned by somebody:

No. of Tests vs Bangladesh in the last 5 years (Mar 2000 to Mar 2005): Aus - 2, Eng - 2, Ind - 3, NZ - 4, Pak - 6, SA - 4, SL - 3, WI - 4, Zim - 8

It got me interested to know how many matches that we are due to play according to ICC's current 5-year ICC Test Championship - home & away basis. Since the ICC's next meeting is on this Thursday & Friday, and there is a possibility that we might be scrapped of playing away tests, so it got me interested to know whether we'll be missing playing against any team soon or not.

Thus, I found the following:

Inaugural test vs IND (1)

Asian Test championship vs Pak (1) & vs SL (1)

Extra vs ZIM (2)

vs Pak (1 three-match test series instead of two)


ICC Test Championship:

Home vs ZIM (2), Away vs ZIM (2), Home vs ZIM (2) = 6 (1 5-year cycle finished + start of another 5-year cycle)

Home vs SA (2), Away vs SA (2) = 4 (1 5-year cycle finished)

Home vs PAK (2), Away vs PAK (2) *in reality three = 4 (1 5-year cycle finished)

Home vs IND (2) = 2

AWAY vs SL (2) = 2

Home vs ENG (2) = 2

Away vs Aus (2) = 2

Home vs WI (2), Away vs WI (2) = 4 (1 5-year cycle finished)

Home vs NZ (2), Away vs NZ (2) = 4 (1 5-year cycle finished)