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ICC should take action against guilty: Tendulkar

"In Sri Lanka we made the finals. We played well in patches and sometimes we were not up to the mark. But the mistakes that we committed, have to be corrected. And it is not last time that there were mistakes. In future there will be mistakes but we will have to minimise those," Tendulkar said. "We have wonderful youngsters. A lot of planning is going on. It is not that players go to hotel and forget. Whole world is watching them and nobody wants to fail. "Sometime we react (too much). We will have to make sure that players get all the confidence. We have to be patient.When we will have identified who will play in the World Cup, they will have to be given reasonable role so that they feel confident and up for the contest," said Tendulkar, who will soon fly Sukhoi frontline fighter plane as a part of his training to earn his "wings". Asked if he feels that mind-boggling sums, offered in T20 leagues like IPL make the youngsters vulnerable to the lure of money, he said priority should be right. "When I started playing, I didn't think of money because I loved cricket, it was my passion. If I make more money and score less runs, I can't sleep at night. There is no harm in having more money but the priority has to be right. "Cricket has to be played in the cleanest way and in right spirit. When we play, we always play to win, whether it's IPL's first match or IPL final or CLT20 match. It has been the same all through my career," he said. A lot of former cricketers like Ajit Wadekar, Dilip Vengsarkar and Kapil Dev and singing legend Asha Bhonsle have said in the past that Tendulkar should be awarded 'Bharat Ratna'. When the Mumbaikar was asked for his view on this, he said,"It's a dream. It's the biggest honour. It is dream of every Indian. Who will not like to get Bharat Ratna." Reflecting on his more than two-decade long career, Tendulkar said the game has changed a lot especially with the advent of Twenty20 cricket. "Players have become more aggressive in their cricket though not in their on-field behaviour against their opponents. With the advent of Twenty20 players are innovating themselves with lots of innovative shots. It has made the game more exciting," he said. Tendulkar admitted that because of their aggression at times cricketers indulge in arguments with each other on the field but he his approach was to control himself. "I am for controlled aggression, maybe just look at the eye of the bowler or something like that. There is no use that you try to respond and lose your control," he reasoned. PTI ATK NCB MRM