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[caption id="attachment_24073" align="alignnone" width="580"] Members voted against Lodha panel recommendations, BCCI to Supreme Court[/caption] Internet Desk: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), in its response in the Supreme Court, has said that most of the recommendations by the Lodha panel were rejected as the majority of members voted against. The BCCI appointed lawyers also refuted the allegations of non-compliance with the panel’s recommendations. The BCCI has also told the apex court that they will be submitting all the 40 e-mails exchanged between them and Justice Lodha. Last week, the Lodha committee had submitted its status report to the top court, accusing the BCCI of defying the apex court’s orders and stalling its proposed reforms. It also recommended the ouster of the entire top brass of the cash-rich cricket body. In its report, the apex court-appointed panel had stated that the BCCI was not implementing its recommendations aimed at reforming the country’s cricket governing body. The move came after the BCCI appointed a five-member selection committee during its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on September 21 and appointing Ajay Shirke as the secretary of the board in the same meeting, which was in violation to the Lodha panel’s guidelines. Tearing into the BCCI for ignoring the directions of the Lodha panel, the apex court had given the cricket governing body time till October 6 to respond to the panel’s report. In its October 1 Special General Meeting, the BCCI excluded several recommendations by the panel that include one-state, one-vote, age limit of 70 years, cooling-off period of three years which included the tenure of the administrators, continue with the five selectors and keeping to retaining the powers of the president and secretary as per the earlier constitution of the board.