You and your friend want to form a cricket team of 11 players each. A total of 22 players are available for selection for these two teams. The players are ranked from 1 to 22 according to their level of overall cricket proficiency. You and your friend, both, want that their respective team should consist of good ranked players. (sum of rank numbers of 11 players in one’s team is less than that other’s team). So, you and your friend decide on following.
1. All the 22 players will be shuffled and asked to stand in a row as directed by any one of you or your friend.
2. The players will be selected alternately into the teams, starting from the person who has not shuffled the players.
3. Only the players at the left end or the right end of the row can be selected. Once a player is selected into a team, he will leave the row and stand in the separate area provided for that team.
Your friend, being very generous, offers you to choose between oportunity to shuffle the players to stand in a row as per your wish, OR whether you will let him shuffle the players and grab the opportunity of selecting first player.

What will you do?

What will be your strategy to guarantee that sum of your players’ ranks is less than that of your friend’s?