Pakistan v England resolves the doubt
The two test matches that ended this week in the Southern Hemisphere have finally come out with the exact difference between 'poor' and 'unfit'. Whenever the wife asks what the brouhaha about 'poor' and 'unfit' is all about the Ghotala Kotla pitch, one has to scratch one's alreading balding pate. The resultant hair loss will now be a thing of the past and the impending hair transplant (like the grass one at Kotla) may become redundant.
Poor - ENGLAND
Unfit - PAKISTAN
A poor pitch doesn't get the axe from the future tour itinerary and has hopes of making a comeback. England managed to snatch a draw from the mouth of a defeat, which itself was snatched from the mouth of a draw. And they did it twice. Sometimes a 'poor' pitch can also be involved in creating 'one of the great' test matches, unintentionally, of course. England were involved in 2*. Sometimes a match ref may not even term a pitch 'poor', if it behaved evenly for a couple of sessions. If it was swinging like a yo yo for 3 days and then became dead for 2 he may actually call it 'superb'. England lead the series 1-0.
An unfit pitch has no friends. Every body wants to blame some one else for the fiasco and sometimes the curator takes the blame (but for the wrong reasons). Daljit faced the axe in Delhi. Yusi may be facing one in Pakistan.
* - This is supposed to be sarcasm