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Good analysis. Hats off to you.It feels as such because of the difference in Batting style and approach of the two batsmen.Firstly lets take the case of HitMan, Rohit Sharma :We all know who he is and how he bats. He is the man who scored 3 Double centuries in ODI cricket.Rohit is a natural timer of the ball(Virat himself said this plenty of times). It's really pleasing to watch him play the strokes.He always wants to stay up in the game and never wants to let the game go away from his team. So he won't mind taking the risks and playing the lofted shots.The POWER. He can hit sixes as huge as those of MS Dhoni and Chris Gayle. He backs himself and tries to go up and over the ropes.Coming to the Modern Day Legend, Virat Kohli :We all have seen him emerging as the best in the business and achieving all possible heights.Virat also times the balls well enough, right from the first ball he faces. His cover drive is a joy to watch and you can replay it again and again and again.He is unarguably the fittest cricketer at present. Even after being at the crease for more than 2 hours and facing over 100 deliveries he can still run like he has just come out to bat and is facing the first ball.He has the strength and power, but he rather likes to make most of the runs by running the ones and twos. (In his innings of 160 runs against South Africa at Cape Town, Kohli bagged 12 fours and two sixes during his century. Which means 100 runs came via plain running on the ground while 60 runs came from boundaries. In his knock, Kohli scored 75 runs from singles, 22 from doubles and 3 from triples by running between the wickets and hence became the first Indian to do add a hundred in this manner.)He backs his Fitness more than his power. He is capable of scoring 10 to 12 runs an over without hitting a boundary or taking any risks. He likes to milk the runs by running.(If he has a fast enough runner like MSD at the other end, we all know how they turns the ones into twos and twos into threes.)He is a master brain in assessing the situation. Breaks down the innings into phases and plays accordingly taking risks at the rarest of occasions.I think these may be enough to distinguish, AN EASY TASK and A LOT OF WORK.Let it be Easy or Lot of Work, I love to watch both of them bat as they play mostly Textbook classic cricketing shots.

Risk assessment is the identification of hazards and determining the likelihood and severity of harm. The outcome of this assessment on a product, process or activity will be that the probability of a particular harm is tolerable or intolerable. When an intolerabile risk is determined, risk management is the process changing something so as to make an intolerable risk tolerable.For example where a person is working at height there is always the risk of falling. The management of this risk could be to require some kind of harness or barrier to reduce the likelihood of falling.Clearly this is a very simplistic explanation, but hopefully it illustrates the point.

Like others have said it doesn't really happen now, on building sites in the UK at least we have to have risk assessments and methods of work statements that state how we are going to mitigate any risks faced by those working at height. Nowadays we might even find ourselves working above a floor covered in airbags.As a worker, If you are found to be ignoring the method of work statement, say by not using your harness and safety lines on a scaffold, you could get fired immediately.In the 1880s 78 men died building the Forth rail bridge outside Edinburgh, Scotland. Nowadays it is rare to hear of even one death on a major project. Accidents do happen of course, but the risks are much better managed now.I do remember as a young man, however, falling from a scaffold four stories up.I was only saved because my boss ( a huge bear of a man) grabbed my tool belt as I went over and swung me on to the deck below. The scaffold I was working on then would be illegal now.In the old days of the "high steel" native american Mohawks were highly regarded as steelworkers and were widely believed to have no fear of heights whatsoever. Me - I'm terrified and love my harness!High Steel