New Delhi, May 17 -- Tripurana Vijay was handed his Indian Premier League (IPL) debut after Delhi Capitals captain Axar Patel confirmed the inclusion of the Andhra Pradesh spinner against Rajasthan Royals on Sunday at the Arun Jaitley Stadium. Vijay was named in the playing XI replacing Aquib Nabi.

"Looking at the nature of the pitch, unfortunately Auqib Nabi misses out, and instead Vijay Tripurana is making his debut," Axar said at the coin toss after opting to bowl first. However, Vijay's debut didn't go the way everyone would have wanted.

Brought into the attack inside the powerplay at the time when Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and Dhruv Jurel were berserk, Vijay conceded 18 runs in his first six balls at the worlds richest franchise T20 lea...