diff --git a/pkg/kv/kvserver/batcheval/cmd_lease_test.go b/pkg/kv/kvserver/batcheval/cmd_lease_test.go
index 29f3c2639028..3c33075afc00 100644
--- a/pkg/kv/kvserver/batcheval/cmd_lease_test.go
+++ b/pkg/kv/kvserver/batcheval/cmd_lease_test.go
@@ -15,14 +15,12 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
-	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/base"
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/kv/kvserver/readsummary"
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/kv/kvserver/readsummary/rspb"
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/roachpb"
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/settings/cluster"
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/storage"
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/testutils"
-	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/testutils/serverutils"
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/util/hlc"
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/util/leaktest"
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/util/log"
@@ -30,96 +28,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )
 
-// TestLeaseTransferWithPipelinedWrite verifies that pipelined writes
-// do not cause retry errors to be leaked to clients when the error
-// can be handled internally. Pipelining dissociates a write from its
-// caller, so the retries of internally-generated errors (specifically
-// out-of-order lease indexes) must be retried below that level.
-//
-// This issue was observed in practice to affect the first insert
-// after table creation with high probability.
-func TestLeaseTransferWithPipelinedWrite(t *testing.T) {
-	defer leaktest.AfterTest(t)()
-	defer log.Scope(t).Close(t)
-
-	ctx := context.Background()
-
-	tc := serverutils.StartNewTestCluster(t, 3, base.TestClusterArgs{})
-	defer tc.Stopper().Stop(ctx)
-
-	db := tc.ServerConn(0)
-
-	for iter := 0; iter < 100; iter++ {
-		log.Infof(ctx, "iter %d", iter)
-		if _, err := db.ExecContext(ctx, "drop table if exists test"); err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		if _, err := db.ExecContext(ctx, "create table test (a int, b int, primary key (a, b))"); err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
-
-		workerErrCh := make(chan error, 1)
-		go func() {
-			workerErrCh <- func() error {
-				for i := 0; i < 1; i++ {
-					tx, err := db.BeginTx(ctx, nil)
-					if err != nil {
-						return err
-					}
-					defer func() {
-						if tx != nil {
-							if err := tx.Rollback(); err != nil {
-								log.Warningf(ctx, "error rolling back: %+v", err)
-							}
-						}
-					}()
-					// Run two inserts in a transaction to ensure that we have
-					// pipelined writes that cannot be retried at the SQL layer
-					// due to the first-statement rule.
-					if _, err := tx.ExecContext(ctx, "INSERT INTO test (a, b) VALUES ($1, $2)", i, 1); err != nil {
-						return err
-					}
-					if _, err := tx.ExecContext(ctx, "INSERT INTO test (a, b) VALUES ($1, $2)", i, 2); err != nil {
-						return err
-					}
-					if err := tx.Commit(); err != nil {
-						return err
-					}
-					tx = nil
-				}
-				return nil
-			}()
-		}()
-
-		// TODO(bdarnell): This test reliably reproduced the issue when
-		// introduced, because table creation causes splits and repeated
-		// table creation leads to lease transfers due to rebalancing.
-		// This is a subtle thing to rely on and the test might become
-		// more reliable if we ran more iterations in the worker goroutine
-		// and added a second goroutine to explicitly transfer leases back
-		// and forth.
-
-		select {
-		case <-time.After(15 * time.Second):
-			// TODO(bdarnell): The test seems flaky under stress with a 5s
-			// timeout. Why? I'm giving it a high timeout since hanging
-			// isn't a failure mode we're particularly concerned about here,
-			// but it shouldn't be taking this long even with stress.
-			t.Fatal("timed out")
-		case err := <-workerErrCh:
-			if err != nil {
-				// We allow the transaction to run into an aborted error due to a lease
-				// transfer when it attempts to create its transaction record. This it
-				// outside of the focus of this test.
-				okErr := testutils.IsError(err, roachpb.ABORT_REASON_NEW_LEASE_PREVENTS_TXN.String())
-				if !okErr {
-					t.Fatalf("worker failed: %+v", err)
-				}
-			}
-		}
-	}
-}
-
 func TestLeaseCommandLearnerReplica(t *testing.T) {
 	defer leaktest.AfterTest(t)()
 	defer log.Scope(t).Close(t)