diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index cc2844979f3..adca63e1671 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -101,6 +101,8 @@ Bug Fixes
 
 * SOLR-9455: Deleting a sub-shard in recovery state can mark parent shard as inactive. (shalin)
 
+* SOLR-9461: DELETENODE, REPLACENODE should pass down the 'async' param to subcommands (shalin, noble)
+
 Optimizations
 ----------------------
 
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/DeleteNodeCmd.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/DeleteNodeCmd.java
index b3c505557ca..0fd001a0fe0 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/DeleteNodeCmd.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/DeleteNodeCmd.java
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException;
 import org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ClusterState;
 import org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZkNodeProps;
+import org.apache.solr.common.params.CommonAdminParams;
 import org.apache.solr.common.util.NamedList;
 import org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 import static org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZkStateReader.COLLECTION_PROP;
 import static org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZkStateReader.SHARD_ID_PROP;
 import static org.apache.solr.common.params.CollectionParams.CollectionAction.DELETEREPLICA;
+import static org.apache.solr.common.params.CommonAdminParams.ASYNC;
 
 public class DeleteNodeCmd implements OverseerCollectionMessageHandler.Cmd {
   private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MethodHandles.lookup().lookupClass());
@@ -53,24 +55,30 @@ public class DeleteNodeCmd implements OverseerCollectionMessageHandler.Cmd {
       throw new SolrException(SolrException.ErrorCode.BAD_REQUEST, "Source Node: " + node + " is not live");
     }
     List<ZkNodeProps> sourceReplicas = ReplaceNodeCmd.getReplicasOfNode(node, state);
-    cleanupReplicas(results, state, sourceReplicas, ocmh, node);
+    cleanupReplicas(results, state, sourceReplicas, ocmh, node, message.getStr(ASYNC));
   }
 
   static void cleanupReplicas(NamedList results,
                               ClusterState clusterState,
                               List<ZkNodeProps> sourceReplicas,
-                              OverseerCollectionMessageHandler ocmh, String node) throws InterruptedException {
+                              OverseerCollectionMessageHandler ocmh,
+                              String node,
+                              String async) throws InterruptedException {
     CountDownLatch cleanupLatch = new CountDownLatch(sourceReplicas.size());
     for (ZkNodeProps sourceReplica : sourceReplicas) {
-      log.info("Deleting replica for collection={} shard={} on node={}", sourceReplica.getStr(COLLECTION_PROP), sourceReplica.getStr(SHARD_ID_PROP), node);
+      String coll = sourceReplica.getStr(COLLECTION_PROP);
+      String shard = sourceReplica.getStr(SHARD_ID_PROP);
+      log.info("Deleting replica for collection={} shard={} on node={}", coll, shard, node);
       NamedList deleteResult = new NamedList();
       try {
+        if (async != null) sourceReplica = sourceReplica.plus(ASYNC, async);
         ((DeleteReplicaCmd)ocmh.commandMap.get(DELETEREPLICA)).deleteReplica(clusterState, sourceReplica.plus("parallel", "true"), deleteResult, () -> {
           cleanupLatch.countDown();
           if (deleteResult.get("failure") != null) {
             synchronized (results) {
+
               results.add("failure", String.format(Locale.ROOT, "Failed to delete replica for collection=%s shard=%s" +
-                  " on node=%s", sourceReplica.getStr(COLLECTION_PROP), sourceReplica.getStr(SHARD_ID_PROP), node));
+                  " on node=%s", coll, shard, node));
             }
           }
         });
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/ReplaceNodeCmd.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/ReplaceNodeCmd.java
index aad9cc721fb..ad02fc00871 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/ReplaceNodeCmd.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/ReplaceNodeCmd.java
@@ -34,14 +34,18 @@ import org.apache.solr.common.cloud.Replica;
 import org.apache.solr.common.cloud.Slice;
 import org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZkNodeProps;
 import org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZkStateReader;
+import org.apache.solr.common.params.CommonAdminParams;
 import org.apache.solr.common.params.CoreAdminParams;
 import org.apache.solr.common.util.NamedList;
+import org.apache.solr.common.util.StrUtils;
 import org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 import static org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZkStateReader.COLLECTION_PROP;
 import static org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZkStateReader.SHARD_ID_PROP;
+import static org.apache.solr.common.params.CommonAdminParams.ASYNC;
+import static org.apache.solr.common.util.StrUtils.formatString;
 
 public class ReplaceNodeCmd implements OverseerCollectionMessageHandler.Cmd {
   private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MethodHandles.lookup().lookupClass());
@@ -58,6 +62,7 @@ public class ReplaceNodeCmd implements OverseerCollectionMessageHandler.Cmd {
     ocmh.checkRequired(message, "source", "target");
     String source = message.getStr("source");
     String target = message.getStr("target");
+    String async = message.getStr("async");
     boolean parallel = message.getBool("parallel", false);
     ClusterState clusterState = zkStateReader.getClusterState();
 
@@ -78,6 +83,7 @@ public class ReplaceNodeCmd implements OverseerCollectionMessageHandler.Cmd {
       NamedList nl = new NamedList();
       log.info("Going to create replica for collection={} shard={} on node={}", sourceReplica.getStr(COLLECTION_PROP), sourceReplica.getStr(SHARD_ID_PROP), target);
       ZkNodeProps msg = sourceReplica.plus("parallel", String.valueOf(parallel)).plus(CoreAdminParams.NODE, target);
+      if(async!=null) msg.getProperties().put(ASYNC, async);
       final ZkNodeProps addedReplica = ocmh.addReplica(clusterState,
           msg, nl, () -> {
             countDownLatch.countDown();
@@ -136,7 +142,7 @@ public class ReplaceNodeCmd implements OverseerCollectionMessageHandler.Cmd {
 
     // we have reached this far means all replicas could be recreated
     //now cleanup the replicas in the source node
-    DeleteNodeCmd.cleanupReplicas(results, state, sourceReplicas, ocmh, source);
+    DeleteNodeCmd.cleanupReplicas(results, state, sourceReplicas, ocmh, source, async);
     results.add("success", "REPLACENODE action completed successfully from  : " + source + " to : " + target);
   }