buccaneer

Highwaymen rogues, buccaneers, cut-throats, they were like young princes to me, still only a lowly dishwasher.

It was a buccaneering innings full of trademark shots square of the wicket as he cut, dabbed, pulled and effortlessly flicked his way to three figures.

Fred Goodwin did that in buccaneering and bullying style, trampling over the older canny values of conventional Scottish finance with the goal of creating a global giant.

England's bold, brash and buccaneering style is winning them plenty of friends and admirers.

Their buccaneering batting is made all the more thrilling by the risk of it going spectacularly wrong, like watching a tightrope walker tiptoe between skyscrapers.