Subramaniam Badrinath was the anchor and MS Dhoni the aggressor as Chennai Super Kings defeated Yorkshire by four wickets with one over to spare at Kingsmead today to end their Champions League Twenty20 campaign on a high with their second consecutive win.

Chasing a target of 141 on a slowish track, CSK lost their opening batsmen - Faf du Plessis and Murali Vijay - inside the first five overs with only 26 runs on the board. But, Yorkshire didn't help their cause with some sloppy fielding and lack of penetrative bowling. Badrinath and stand-in captain Suresh Raina (31) then got CSK's chase back on track with a 48-run partnership for the third wicket as the pair took their time to play themselves in while rotating the strike, and then went on to play the big shots. The  partnership was ended by Oliver Hannon-Dolby (2-23) who had Raina caught by David Miller.

Man of the Match Badrinath (47 from 38 balls) then shared a quick-fire 43-run partnership with Dhoni, as the powerful right-hander was on the attack from the outset and hit two massive sixes in his 23-ball 31. Iain Wardlaw clean bowled Badrinath behind his legs, but at this stage CSK needed only 24 more runs to win, and Dhoni ensured there wouldn't be any late Yorkshire fightback. He was also clean bowled by Wardlaw attempting a helicopter shot when the scores were tied, and then Wriddhiman Saha managed to keep out a yorker as CSK successfully went over the line.

CSK ended their camapaign with two wins and two defeats, while Yorkshire lost three matches and had one No Result in their maiden CL T20 appearence.

Earlier, Gary Ballance's brilliant half-century and his 78-run partnership for the fourth wicket with Miller helped Yorkshire set CSK a target of 141. Ballance and Miller, who replaced Phil Jaques, came together after Yorkshire had lost three wickets for eight runs in three overs just after the Power Play. Ballance hit a boundary and five sixes in his 38-ball 58 before he was run out in the first ball of the last over of the innings.

Albie Morkel dismissed Yorkshire captain Andrew Gale and Joe Root, with Ben Hilfenhaus dismissing Adam Lyth in between to leave the County side struggling at 43 for 3 after eight overs.

Ballance and Miller then consolidated Yorkshire's innings and kept the scoreboard ticking over, and both batsmen hit a six each in the 13th over bowled by Ravindra Jadeja, with the former's slop sweep the pick of the two, as urgency started to set into the innings, which contained a total of 61 dot deliveries. Ballance survived a caught behind appeal by Saha off Ashwin's bowling in the 14th over, but replays clearly indicated that the ball had bounced on the pitch. Ashwin (0-25), who shared the new ball with Doug Bollinger in this match, had a disappointing tournament by his standards as his three wickets came at an average of 47.66 and economy rate of 9.53.

As Raina had promised at the toss, Dhoni was given a couple of overs - the 15th and 17th - and his 12 deliveries cost CSK 25 runs. Though Dhoni bowled two wides in the 15th over, he managed to get away with conceding only seven runs. But, he was taken to task in the 17th over as Ballance hit two sixes and also scored all but one run in that over.

Bollinger ended the fourth wicket partnership between Miller (28) and Ballance when he had the former caught by Ashwin at cover; and also bowled an excellent last over and conceded only three runs as Yorkshire ended their innings at 140 for 6, which in the end proved to be 20 runs too short. Morkel (2-12) and Bollinger (2-16) were the pick of the Super Kings' bowlers.