The champion batsman also threw his weight behind the youngsters in the Indian team, who failed miserably during the tri-series in Sri Lanka, but asked them to minimise mistakes and learn to respond to situations swiftly.
Tendulkar said he was disappointed with the spot-fixing incident and felt if the scam, which has come to light after an "expose" by a British tabloid, turns out to be true it will bring "disrepute to the game".
"ICC should make a thorough probe in whatever had happened in England and take appropriate action if the players are found guilty. If the allegations are true, they will certainly bring disrepute to the game," Tendulkar told reporters.
"I am no expert and not the one to comment while sitting here in India on something which happened in England. But certainly it has disappointed me," he said when asked to comment on the latest crisis to have rocked the game.
"Integrity is extremely required to take the game forward and make it more globalised. It is important to have a clean image so that cricket heads in the right direction and I am sure ICC will take every measure to ensure the game moves in the right direction," he added.
Asked if he had heard of any Indian player being approached by bookmakers, Tendulkar said he had never come across any such instance.
"No, in my 21 years of international cricket, I have never heard of any Indian player being approached by bookies," said Tendulkar, who was speaking at a media interaction at the sidelines of a photo exhibition to celebrate his 21 years in international cricket.
The Indian icon also backed the young cricketers in the Indian team, who failed to make a mark in Sri Lanka.
The Indian youngsters, including Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli, Dinesh Karthik and Rohit Sharma fared poorly in Sri Lanka and it was only Virender Sehwag's heroics that steered India to the final.
But Tendulkar contended that the young players cannot be labelled as incompetent on the basis of just one bad tour.
"The guys have done well. Just in the last tour, the graph was up and down. Sehwag batted exceptionally well and matches just rallied around him.
"But the youngsters will have to understand that they will have to play around the batsman or bowler, who are in good nick. They will be asked to play supportive role and they will have to start picking those signals," Tendulkar said on the sidelines of a IAF function to confer the honorary rank of group captain on him.
"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.
Walking down the memory lane, Tendulkar said he would not forget the first press conference of his career after he earned his first man of the match award in the second Test of the England tour in 1990.
"It was at Old Trafford. I was very awkward and I did not know what to do as that was my first press conference. I asked my team-mates what kind of questions I might face and how should I answer them. The coach then was Bishen Singh Bedi and he told me don't get nervous, be confident and do whatever you want," Tendulkar said.
"I have been a shy guy and most of the time I prefer to look down when I speak to somebody. I would not look up at the eye of the other person. But I think I have changed though not much. I have now at a sort of comfort level," he confessed.
"When I was young there were problems initially as people think I am snobbish as I don't speak out much. They think I am not interested in the things happening around," he added.
Tendulkar said his first tour of Australia in 1991-92, where he scored two Test centuries, has been one of the most satisfying phases of his career.
"There were phases in my career in which I felt I was doing really well. The first tour of Australia in 1991-92 was one such phase. Then I though I was satisfied with my performance in from 1994-96. I had done well in 2003 also, the World Cup that year was memorable. The last three years also I think I have done well," he said.
Tendulkar said it was easy to lose head when a cricketer achieves success at a young age but he had been guided well by his family and has never been complacent in his career.
"It is easy to lose your head. You have been dreaming to get something for a long time and you get it. Naturally, it will have some effect on you.
"But I think I have never been complacent. There was time when I was 16-year-old I could have been affected but from my childhood I have been told by my parents not to take anything for granted. So my approach has been if I score a 100 then forget it and think of scoring 150 in the next match," he said.
Asked about the Indian Premier League parties, which were criticised by some people, he said it was individual cricketer's decision to decide whether or not take part in them.
"There were parties during the IPL though I did not attend any one of them. It depends on individual cricketer. If he feels he can take part in the parties and still play his best cricket next day, it's all right.
"The responsibility of any cricketer is to play his best whenever he walks out at a cricket field. If he thinks he can take that responsibility and also play his best it is his decision," Tendulkar said.