diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index 599b124f880..82f8453e634 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -302,6 +302,8 @@ Other Changes
 
 * SOLR-11766: Move Streaming Expressions section in Ref Guide to be a top-level section. (Cassandra Targett)
 
+* SOLR-12656: ShardSplitTest should extend AbstractFullDistribZkTestBase instead of BasicDistributedZkTest. (shalin)
+
 ==================  7.4.0 ==================
 
 Consult the LUCENE_CHANGES.txt file for additional, low level, changes in this release.
diff --git a/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/cloud/api/collections/ShardSplitTest.java b/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/cloud/api/collections/ShardSplitTest.java
index a3fbd19fd42..bcdac770863 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/cloud/api/collections/ShardSplitTest.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/cloud/api/collections/ShardSplitTest.java
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
 
 import org.apache.lucene.util.LuceneTestCase.Slow;
-import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrClient;
 import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrQuery;
 import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrRequest;
 import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrServerException;
@@ -45,7 +44,7 @@ import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.response.CollectionAdminResponse;
 import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.response.QueryResponse;
 import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.response.RequestStatusState;
 import org.apache.solr.cloud.AbstractDistribZkTestBase;
-import org.apache.solr.cloud.BasicDistributedZkTest;
+import org.apache.solr.cloud.AbstractFullDistribZkTestBase;
 import org.apache.solr.cloud.ChaosMonkey;
 import org.apache.solr.cloud.StoppableIndexingThread;
 import org.apache.solr.common.SolrDocument;
@@ -76,7 +75,7 @@ import static org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZkStateReader.REPLICATION_FACTOR;
 
 @Slow
 @LogLevel("org.apache.solr.cloud.Overseer=DEBUG;org.apache.solr.cloud.overseer=DEBUG;org.apache.solr.cloud.api.collections=DEBUG;org.apache.solr.cloud.OverseerTaskProcessor=DEBUG;org.apache.solr.util.TestInjection=DEBUG")
-public class ShardSplitTest extends BasicDistributedZkTest {
+public class ShardSplitTest extends AbstractFullDistribZkTestBase {
 
   private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MethodHandles.lookup().lookupClass());
 
@@ -1105,22 +1104,4 @@ public class ShardSplitTest extends BasicDistributedZkTest {
       log.error("EXTRA: ID: " + found);
     }
   }
-
-  @Override
-  protected SolrClient createNewSolrClient(String collection, String baseUrl) {
-    HttpSolrClient client = (HttpSolrClient) super.createNewSolrClient(collection, baseUrl, DEFAULT_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT, 5 * 60 * 1000);
-    return client;
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  protected SolrClient createNewSolrClient(int port) {
-    HttpSolrClient client = (HttpSolrClient) super.createNewSolrClient(port, DEFAULT_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT, 5 * 60 * 1000);
-    return client;
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  protected CloudSolrClient createCloudClient(String defaultCollection) {
-    CloudSolrClient client = super.createCloudClient(defaultCollection);
-    return client;
-  }
 }