When even Ian Chappell was silly!

Ian Chappell must have been out of his mind! Consider this.
Sourav Ganguly is given out off Paul a Colligwood's dibly-dobler for an lbw decision. Ganguly instinctively gives the umpire Howell and the celebrating players a rye, sarcastic smile . You would wonder why. Replay and you see it's a massive inside edge off the bat! Ganguly had just come off a bad Simon Tauffel decision at Trent Bridge. And you'd wonder why Ganguly was just smiling. I thought I would have thrown my bat at the umpire had I been in his shoes! Think about it. You have just made a confident come back into the Indian team after a long lay-off. And after that, you are playing in your favourite part of the world, with a form reminiscent of your debut-century scoring season. One decision is understandable, but then second in a row! A few seconds later as I was ruing about the decision, Alan Wilkins, the ever sensible sounding Welshman, makes this comment: "May be the third umpire should have played a Tauffel here. The whole world watching TV knows it's not out. Why not tell the umpire to bring the batsman back?"(like it had happened with Keven Pieterson at Lord's). And the wily former Australian captain Ian Chappel, whose commentary we've over the years come to enjoy for the sheer technicality, seemed to disagree. His explanation (was something like this) : Bringing technology that way makes it unfair for the other batsmen. It's after all a game. Leave it the way it is.
Oh come on Mr Chappel! A prestigious series is being hijacked by bad umpiring and this is what you have to say? You are making yourself sound sillier than the umpire! Then why allow third umpire have his say in run-outs? why refer to him when there are dubious catches? You're in an era where most sports utilize technology in some way or the other, specially when there is enough scope to do so.
It's really sad we keep hearing the commentators saying a certain batsman X was "unfortunate" to be given out while he was not at all out. And 9 out of 10 times it will be an lbw decision. It's becoming a cliched cliche! How much more longer into the 21st century would it take for the ICC to consider introducing technology to assist umpires in adjudicating lbws? Understandable that it's not an easy decision to make. But how much longer are you going to make even the best of umpires look stupid? It's time to look for alternatives. Hawk-eye is one technology to consider. It's something that is being used in tennis pretty successfully, even with it's limitations. It can very well be used in cricket too by giving the benefit of the doubt to the batsmen on marginal decisions. Even if implementing Hawk-eye like technology is difficult, it has to direct third umpires to act when they see a clear decision being adjudicated wrongly. Such steps can make all the people involved have a better feeling about the way the game is being played - the players, umpires and the audience. Untill then, people would only have one reaction to bad decisions - scoffing! And it would just not be cricket no more!