{"id":170904,"date":"2026-05-22T12:37:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=170904"},"modified":"2026-05-22T12:37:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:07:41","slug":"tamil-nadu-chief-minister-vijay-presented-with-virat-kohli-signed-bat-by-mrf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=170904","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Vijay presented with Virat Kohli-signed bat by MRF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-71012204\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay was pictured posing with a signed bat by Virat Kohli in a photograph that has gone viral on social media on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The newly-elected head of government posed with an MRF \u2018Genius\u2019 bat which was popularised by the former Indian captain.<\/p>\n<p>The prized possession was gifted to the cine star-turned-politican by representatives from the MRF group including Chairman and Managing Director KM Mammen, Vice Chairman and Managing Director Arun Mammen, and Managing Director Rahul Mammen.<\/p>\n<p>Kohli has enjoyed a long association with the MRF brand and has carried the iconic sticker on his bat, following in the footsteps of legends like Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara, and Steve Waugh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on May 22, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/vijay-virat-kohli-signed-bat-mrf-thalapathy-tamil-nadu-cm-news\/article71012204.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay was pictured posing with a signed bat by Virat Kohli in a photograph that has gone viral on social media on Friday. The newly-elected head of government posed with an MRF \u2018Genius\u2019 bat which was popularised by the former Indian captain. The prized possession was gifted to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":170905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp20Image202026-05-2220at2022.28.53.jpeg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgnRh4-Isw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/170905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}