Eilidh Child feels her Scotland team-mates will get the perfect sampler of a home Commonwealth Games when they compete in front of a sell-out crowd in Glasgow on Saturday.

Child will captain Scotland in the four-team Sainsbury's Glasgow International Match at the Emirates Arena where they will take on Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States and a Commonwealth select.

The 400 metres hurdler won Commonwealth silver in 2010 and competed at the London Olympics before finishing fifth in the World Championships last year.

But she knows the backing of a full Hampden in July and August will be unlike anything she has experienced before.

So she has urged her team-mates to embrace the atmosphere in the 5,000-capacity indoor arena.

Child said: "The Emirates is going to be amazing when it's really full and with the Commonwealth Games this year it's going to be an electric atmosphere.

"It's really good because we don't usually get the chance to run as a Scotland team. Obviously there is not a huge focus on us trying to win because we are the underdogs by quite a bit.

"For a lot of these athletes it's their first chance to compete at a stage like this against world-class athletes so there are going to be nerves.

"But I just hope they all go out and embrace it and enjoy it and use it as a stepping stone towards the Commonwealths. When you step out to a full Hampden it's going to be quite overwhelming so use this atmosphere and enjoy it and get a bit of excitement from it."

The 26-year-old, who is competing at the 400m flat, in which she won a silver medal at the European Indoor Championships last year, added: "I try to use the crowd. I think it really makes a difference. I found in London it really helped.

"If you have got people shouting at you the whole way, especially in my event when you're coming down the home straight and your legs are struggling a bit, just to have the roar behind you does make a difference."

Commonwealth captain Kim Collins has competed many times in Glasgow and the 37-year-old sprinter hopes to return in the summer despite a fall-out with the St Kitts and Nevis Olympic Committee which saw him miss last year's World Championships.

Collins, who set a 100m personal best of 9.97 seconds last year, said: "It's looking up and up and I'm keeping my fingers crossed and hoping that everything will go well and we have everything sorted out, and make sure that we move on and do the best thing for the sport.

"The fans are very supportive here. It almost feels like a home crowd and I feel a lot of advantage being here, almost like a local."

Sprint hurdler William Sharman is embracing the responsibility of captaining the British team.

Sharman said: "When I was asked to be captain I immediately felt out of my comfort zone and I wanted to say no, but 'yes' came out of my mouth. Because I am honoured and I am excited to be leading this strong team.

"I have just taken it in my stride and looked at it quite rationally, that I have a growing prominence in the team and my performances are also of that nature. People look at me in the team as an example of how to perform in major championships.

"So I have to keep doing what I have always done and, when I give my talk before the competition, hopefully they can get some insight into how to perform or behave."

Meanwhile, American captain Bernard Lagat has tipped Scotland's World Championship 1500m finalist Chris O'Hare to make a long-term impact.

The pair trained together on Thursday and 12-time global medallist Lagat was impressed with O'Hare's attitude.

The 39-year-old, who is racing in the 3,000m, said: "He is one talented athlete. I was telling him: 'I want to see you in 2016 and 2020 in Tokyo' and he said: 'Of course'.

"I like that confidence because when you talk to young guys sometimes, and I have talked to so many over the years, many don't see past one year.

"But if you look past that, that means you have confidence and you are ready to do the work to get there."