Building My First Terminal Game in Python: Hand Cricket 🏏

Why I Built This

I’ve recently been diving into Python, and while doing random beginner projects, I wanted to build something that I actually played as a kid — like Hand Cricket

So I ended up creating a small terminal game where I (the user) face off against a bot in a match of tosses, batting, bowling, and randomness.

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What It Does

It’s a basic command-line cricket match between me and a bot:

• Toss by choosing odd or even

  How it works

  You choose odd or even and then choose a number. If sum of the bot’s choice number and the number you chose, is even, the person who chose even at the start will win the toss

• Option to bat or ball
• You keep hitting until you’re out (when numbers match)

  i.e the batsman and the bowler has to choose the same number

• Two innings: whoever has more score wins

It has:

• input() for all user actions
• random.choice() for bot decisions
• Emoji-based results for fun
• A lot of simple if-else and while logic

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My Code Structure

I didn’t use any advanced libraries. Just:

import random

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