kolkata bengal suffered a massive setback ahead of the ranji trophy quarterfinals as they went down to odisha by seven wickets in their elite group a match at the eden gardens on fridayhaving already made the knockouts before their last league match bengal were looking to iron out the flaws in this inconsequential game and get ready for the bigger challenge ahead but instead they ended up on the losing side for the first time this ranji season and with plenty of questions to answerbengal were hit hard during the two morning sessions of day iii and iv where they lost seven and six wickets respectively while on day iii the hosts resuming at overnight score of 39 for two were bowled out for a mere 100 the next morning they were bowled out for 276 after resuming at a healthylooking 220 for three after being asked to follow ona target of 112 runs with two sessions of play left was not a tall ask and odisha romped home to their only victory in this ranji season with ease losing just three wickets some 45 minutes after the lunch intervalcoach laxmi ratan shukla accepted it was a poor show by his boys at the end of the day we played badly he said laterthe bengal first innings lasted just 35 overs with opener abhimanyu easwaran being the highest rungetter with 27 the opener was once among runs in the second innings hitting 101 his third ton this season with sudip gharami 50 and manoj tiwary 52 getting halfcenturies it was because of the contributions of these three batters that at stumps on day iii it seemed bengal would save the match but another batting collapse on the fourth day morning poured water on thatbrief scores odisha 265 1123 in 222 ovs anurag sarangi 37 sandeep pattnaik 28 no bengal 100 276 in 79 ovs abhimanyu easwaran 101 sudip gharami 50 manoj tiwary 52 sunil roul 696 odisha won by 7 wickets quarterfinals lineup from jan 31 bengal a1 v jharkhand c2 saurashtra b1 v punjab d2 karnataka c1 v uttarakhand a2 madhya pradesh d1 v andhra b2