One of the few good qualities possessed by Duryodhana was that he was never a coward, On the 18th day of the war Yudisthira asked Duryodhana to pick any of the pandva brother to fight one-on-one with him with the weapon of his choice and if he won victory will be his, Note that Yudi, Nakul,Sahdev and Arjuna were inferior to Duryodhana in mace, Duryodhana would have defeated either of the four with the mace, But he selected the strongest of them all, Bhima to fight with him.
As far as I know, though Bhima was physically stronger than Dury but Duryodhana was more skillfull than him at mace, Balrama was angry and wanted kill Bhima himself because he cheated.
Edited by TheWatcher - 11 years ago