Aviva International Match Venue: Kelvin Hall, Glasgow Date: Saturday 30 January Coverage: Watch live on BBC One and the BBC Sport website (UK only) 1400-1630 GMT
Ennis leads Great Britain and Northern Ireland against Jones and the US team
By Mark Butler BBC Sport's athletics statistician takes a look at the numbers behind the big races
Since 1988, when Glasgow's Kelvin Hall replaced RAF Cosford as the premier venue for indoor athletics in Britain, it has brought us our first insight each year as to how the track season might turn out.
It is by no means the biggest meeting of the indoor season, but for a statistician it is one of the trickiest as the organisers now tend to bring together evenly-matched teams, vying for victory right up to the last event.
This year pitches a Great Britain and Northern Ireland squad captained by Jessica Ennis against teams from the US and Sweden, along with a Commonwealth Select side led by South Africa's 800m world champion Mbulaeni Mulaudzi.
Ennis relishing racing Lolo Jones
The total winning margin over the past three years has been just four points, with 2007 producing a tie between Britain and the USA, who each had the same number of points, winners and second places.
Between 2000-06 Russia won six times out of seven, and in the 20 televised matches since 1988, it is Russia which has the most victories with eight, compared with Britain's seven-and-a-half.
Though the team match is fun, of more significance is the first glimpse this fixture gives us of athletes who have wintered well.
It will be tough for a British woman to win the 60m as the world's fastest woman, Carmelita Jeter, will be in town
So when a 22-year-old Sally Gunnell won the 400m in 1988 with the second-quickest indoor time ever by a British woman, it was a great sign of what was to come from her in 400m hurdles.
Within five years she had world outdoor gold and silver individual medals to her name and an Olympic gold, won in Barcelona.
Another future 400m hurdles star was among the winners in 2001, when Felix Sanchez quietly won the 'B' 400m. Seven months later he was world champion.
It was in the Glasgow 4x400m of 2006 that Nicola Sanders demonstrated she could be a phenomenal performer, going on to take world silver the following year.
And in the women's 60m, the Glasgow winners of 2004 (Abi Oyepitan) and 2008 (Jeanette Kwakye) progressed all the way to Olympic finals in those years.
It will be tough for a British woman to win again in 2010, however, as the world's fastest woman, Carmelita Jeter, will be in town.
The headlines on Sunday will likely go to Jeter, but the blue riband event of the meeting seems to have become the men's 60m, which once again ends the programme.
This perhaps should be renamed the Malcolm Arnold sprint, since athletes he has coached have triumphed on all but one occasion since 2000: Jason Gardener won six times, now Craig Pickering has won the last three.
It was in 2007 that Pickering made his breakthrough, while in 2008 his victory clinched the match for Britain.
He is on the team for Saturday, when we will get the first clues as to how well his season - and that of many other British athletes - may unfold in 2010.
1988 - 1 GB 130.5; 2 Fra 104.5 A capacity crowd of 5,000 watch wins by Sally Gunnell, Linford Christie and Jon Ridgeon at the newly refurbished Kelvin Hall.
1989 - 1 GB 159; 2 W Ger 86 British high jump record by Dalton Grant
1989 - 1 GB 107; 2 USA 105; 3, USSR 104 4x400m world record by USA men
1990 - 1 E Ger 140.5; 2 GB 134.5 Britain's men defeat East Germany for the first time to win their side of the match
1991 - 1 USA 150; 2 GB 127 British team set a world record in men's 4x200m
1992 - Invitational Meeting Merlene Ottey clocks the fastest 60m ever in Britain
1993 - 1 Rus 161; 2 GB 105 Guest Michael Johnson wins the 400m and admits "I ran terribly"
1994 - 1 Rus 138; 2 GB 115 Linford Christie defeats Colin Jackson at 60m, but only by one hundredth of a second
1994 - 1 GB 147; 2 USA 118 Colin Jackson equals the world record in the 60m hurdles
1995 - 1 GB 155; 2 Fra 122 Commonwealth pole vault record by Kate Staples
1996 1 GB 142; 2 Fra 138 SallyGunnell returns to win again after 18 months out through injury
1997-1999 - No meeting
2000 - 1 Rus 73.5; 2 All Stars 64; 3 GB 48; 4 Can 41; 5 Fra 40.5 New 800m star Yuriy Borzakovskiy wins with a spectacularly-fast last lap
2001 - 1 Rus 76; 2 All Stars 75; 3 GB 62 4 Scandinavia 36; 5 GB Lions 36 British 1500m record by Hayley Tullett
2002 - 1 Rus 66.5; 2 GB 61.5; 3 All Stars 56.5; 4 Ger 42; 5 Swe 39.5 British all-comers record in the triple jump by Ashia Hansen
2003 - 1 GB 59; 2 Rus 58; 3 Europe 56; 4 Swe 42; 5 Ita 39 World pole vault record by Svetlana Feofanova
2004 - 1 Rus 61; 2 World Select 56.5; 3 GB 52; 4 Swe 41.5; 5 Ita 26 Kelly Holmes begins her epic year with a win in the 1500m
2005 - 1 Rus 63; 2 GB 48; 3 Fra 47; 4 Swe 46; 5, Ita 33 Russia's women unexpectedly break the world record at 4x200m
2006 - 1 Rus 65; 2 Commonwealth 52; 3 GB 50; 4 Swe 43; 5 Ita 20 Another relay world record by Russian women, this time at 4x400m
2007 - =1 GB & USA 50; 3 Ger 50; 4 Swe 46; 5 Commonwealth 43 Christian Olsson defeats Phillips Idowu in the triple jump
2008 - 1 GB 54; =2 USA & Ger 53; 4 Commonwealth 46; 5 Swe 43 A sixth successive victory in the 60m hurdles by Susana Kallur
2009 - 1 Commonwealth 60; 2 GB 57; 3 Ger 51; 4 USA 46; 5 Swe 37 British 3000m record by Mo Farah
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