diff --git a/hudi-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hudi/common/testutils/RawTripTestPayload.java b/hudi-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hudi/common/testutils/RawTripTestPayload.java
index 8442aff08..df450a5ff 100644
--- a/hudi-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hudi/common/testutils/RawTripTestPayload.java
+++ b/hudi-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hudi/common/testutils/RawTripTestPayload.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 package org.apache.hudi.common.testutils;
 
 import org.apache.hudi.avro.MercifulJsonConverter;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.model.HoodieKey;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.model.HoodieRecord;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.model.HoodieRecordPayload;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.util.FileIOUtils;
@@ -94,6 +95,11 @@ public class RawTripTestPayload implements HoodieRecordPayload<RawTripTestPayloa
     }
   }
 
+  public static List<String> deleteRecordsToStrings(List<HoodieKey> records) {
+    return records.stream().map(record -> "{\"_row_key\": \"" + record.getRecordKey() + "\",\"partition\": \"" + record.getPartitionPath() + "\"}")
+        .collect(Collectors.toList());
+  }
+
   public String getPartitionPath() {
     return partitionPath;
   }
diff --git a/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/hudi/HoodieSparkSqlWriter.scala b/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/hudi/HoodieSparkSqlWriter.scala
index 829690f2b..340ac1443 100644
--- a/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/hudi/HoodieSparkSqlWriter.scala
+++ b/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/hudi/HoodieSparkSqlWriter.scala
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ private[hudi] object HoodieSparkSqlWriter {
 
           // Create a HoodieWriteClient & issue the delete.
           val client = hoodieWriteClient.getOrElse(DataSourceUtils.createHoodieClient(jsc,
-            Schema.create(Schema.Type.NULL).toString, path.get, tblName,
+            null, path.get, tblName,
             mapAsJavaMap(parameters - HoodieWriteConfig.HOODIE_AUTO_COMMIT_PROP)))
             .asInstanceOf[SparkRDDWriteClient[HoodieRecordPayload[Nothing]]]
 
diff --git a/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/hudi/functional/TestCOWDataSource.scala b/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/hudi/functional/TestCOWDataSource.scala
index 88ed65f89..bf730e212 100644
--- a/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/hudi/functional/TestCOWDataSource.scala
+++ b/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/hudi/functional/TestCOWDataSource.scala
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import org.apache.hudi.common.table.{HoodieTableMetaClient, TableSchemaResolver}
 import org.apache.hudi.common.table.timeline.HoodieInstant
 import org.apache.hudi.common.testutils.HoodieTestDataGenerator
 import org.apache.hudi.common.testutils.RawTripTestPayload.recordsToStrings
+import org.apache.hudi.common.testutils.RawTripTestPayload.deleteRecordsToStrings
 import org.apache.hudi.config.HoodieWriteConfig
 import org.apache.hudi.keygen._
 import org.apache.hudi.keygen.TimestampBasedAvroKeyGenerator.Config
@@ -52,6 +53,8 @@ class TestCOWDataSource extends HoodieClientTestBase {
   val commonOpts = Map(
     "hoodie.insert.shuffle.parallelism" -> "4",
     "hoodie.upsert.shuffle.parallelism" -> "4",
+    "hoodie.bulkinsert.shuffle.parallelism" -> "2",
+    "hoodie.delete.shuffle.parallelism" -> "1",
     DataSourceWriteOptions.RECORDKEY_FIELD_OPT_KEY -> "_row_key",
     DataSourceWriteOptions.PARTITIONPATH_FIELD_OPT_KEY -> "partition",
     DataSourceWriteOptions.PRECOMBINE_FIELD_OPT_KEY -> "timestamp",
@@ -125,6 +128,37 @@ class TestCOWDataSource extends HoodieClientTestBase {
     assertEquals(schema, actualSchema)
   }
 
+  @Test
+  def testCopyOnWriteDeletes(): Unit = {
+    // Insert Operation
+    val records1 = recordsToStrings(dataGen.generateInserts("000", 100)).toList
+    val inputDF1 = spark.read.json(spark.sparkContext.parallelize(records1, 2))
+    inputDF1.write.format("org.apache.hudi")
+      .options(commonOpts)
+      .mode(SaveMode.Overwrite)
+      .save(basePath)
+
+    assertTrue(HoodieDataSourceHelpers.hasNewCommits(fs, basePath, "000"))
+
+    val snapshotDF1 = spark.read.format("org.apache.hudi")
+      .load(basePath + "/*/*/*/*")
+    assertEquals(100, snapshotDF1.count())
+
+    val records2 = deleteRecordsToStrings(dataGen.generateUniqueDeletes(20)).toList
+    val inputDF2 = spark.read.json(spark.sparkContext.parallelize(records2 , 2))
+
+    inputDF2.write.format("org.apache.hudi")
+      .options(commonOpts)
+      .option(DataSourceWriteOptions.OPERATION_OPT_KEY, DataSourceWriteOptions.DELETE_OPERATION_OPT_VAL)
+      .mode(SaveMode.Append)
+      .save(basePath)
+
+    val snapshotDF2 = spark.read.format("org.apache.hudi")
+      .load(basePath + "/*/*/*/*")
+    assertEquals(snapshotDF1.count() - inputDF2.count(), snapshotDF2.count())
+  }
+
+
   @ParameterizedTest
   //TODO(metadata): Needs HUDI-1459 to be fixed
   //@ValueSource(booleans = Array(true, false))