Lowest individual score

What is the lowest score never yet made by a batsman in a Test match? Yes, I knew you were aching to know the answer to this question. That's why I'm dealing with it here. We're nothing if not considerate of readers' wishes at normblog.

(Don't you admire that expression - 'nothing if not'? 'I'm nothing if not obliging.' Ever thought about the worrying implications of that? It means that if you aren't obliging, you're nothing - a gap, an absence, a once-but-no-longer. You should be more careful about what you say.)

The answer anyway (scroll down) is 229.

When this question came up on a previous occasion, it received a more expansive answer from Steven Lynch, and I quote his answer in full (again, scroll down) for the way it reveals the extreme madness of many members of the human species, but in a benign sense:

The last time I was asked that question the answer was 228 - but that's now been done, by Herschelle Gibbs for South Africa v West Indies at Cape Town in January 2003. So the lowest score never made in a Test is now... 229. For the record, the only other scores under 250 which have never been recorded in a Test are 238, 245, 248 and 249. The most-common score in Tests is, not surprisingly, 0 (7368 instances, including not-outs), followed by 1 (2963). Perhaps slightly oddly, more batsmen have made 4 (2390) than 2 (2323).

As this answer is more than two years old, some of it may be out of date, but tell me how many times it's crossed your mind to consider whether there have been more scores of 4 or of 2 in Test cricket. I wonder how 9s fare against 8s. Hypotheses as to why, at the time it was true, it was true that more batsmen had made 4 than 2 may be sent on a postcard to the President of Iran. (Thanks: IH.)