When the Women's Big Bash League rolls around, the women's sporting landscape changes.
Six weeks ago Katie Mack and Kris Britt were teammates playing in front of a handful of people for the ACT Meteors in the Women's National Cricket League.
ALBURY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 13: Katie Mack of the Stars bats during the Women's Big Bash League match between the Melbourne Stars and the Sydney Thunder at Lavington Sports Ground on December 13, 2016 in Albury, Australia. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)Credit:Scott Barbour
Now they have ticked off cross-town derbies at the Melbourne Cricket ground and Etihad Stadium, the former in front of a record crowd of 24,547 fans.
Not only are they on opposite teams, they have been locked in a direct shootout in the middle order.
Britt isn't the only ACT player at the Renegades this summer — she has been joined by Maitlan Brown and Nicole Goodwin. The trio stole bragging rights at the MCG in a rain-affected win on New Year's Day and backed it up on Sunday, Britt scoring a quick-fire 35 in a five-wicket win.
Melbourne Stars batter Mack was labelled one of the competition's players to watch by Australian great Lisa Sthalekar, and she has since racked up 167 runs at an average of 83.5 in a finishing role.
While Sthalekar's recognition brought a giggle and had Mack almost lost for words, she knows it is the sort of exposure that is now part and parcel of the WBBL.
Britt says the whole city gets on board during the tournament and the players have gone from relative unknowns to getting stopped in the streets because little kids know who they are.
To be right in the heartbeat of what many call Australia's sporting capital is a surreal feeling for Mack, who has gained a whole new perspective on the game just by pulling on a different uniform.
"I'm from Sydney but I'm out in the suburbs, and to be able to come here and be living, training, and playing in the city is really cool," Mack said.
"We obviously have some pretty passionate supporters down here that, whether it's the AFL season or cricket season, they're all on top of it willing to come to all the games and stuff, that's pretty cool, too.
"I think just playing with new players rather than your normal state team, you get a new outlook on the way they go about their things and new coaching.
"When you take that all on board it's only going to help you out."
Caden Helmers is a sports reporter for The Canberra Times