diff --git a/parquet-avro/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/avro/AvroReadSupport.java b/parquet-avro/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/avro/AvroReadSupport.java
index 6d7ca398a4..5e6ac2b38c 100644
--- a/parquet-avro/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/avro/AvroReadSupport.java
+++ b/parquet-avro/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/avro/AvroReadSupport.java
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@
  */
 package org.apache.parquet.avro;
 
+import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
+import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 import java.util.stream.Stream;
@@ -32,6 +34,7 @@
 import org.apache.parquet.hadoop.util.ConfigurationUtil;
 import org.apache.parquet.io.api.RecordMaterializer;
 import org.apache.parquet.schema.MessageType;
+import org.apache.parquet.schema.Type;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
@@ -126,12 +129,19 @@ public ReadContext init(Configuration configuration, Map<String, String> keyValu
   public ReadContext init(
       ParquetConfiguration configuration, Map<String, String> keyValueMetaData, MessageType fileSchema) {
     MessageType projection = fileSchema;
-    Map<String, String> metadata = new LinkedHashMap<String, String>();
+    Map<String, String> metadata = new LinkedHashMap<>();
 
     String requestedProjectionString = configuration.get(AVRO_REQUESTED_PROJECTION);
     if (requestedProjectionString != null) {
       Schema avroRequestedProjection = new Schema.Parser().parse(requestedProjectionString);
-      projection = new AvroSchemaConverter(configuration).convert(avroRequestedProjection);
+      List<Type> types = new ArrayList<>();
+      for (Schema.Field field : avroRequestedProjection.getFields()) {
+        if (field.schema().getType().equals(Schema.Type.NULL)) {
+          continue; // Avro nulls are not encoded, unless they are null unions
+        }
+        types.add(fileSchema.getType(field.name()));
+      }
+      projection = new MessageType(avroRequestedProjection.getFullName(), types);
     }
 
     String avroReadSchema = configuration.get(AVRO_READ_SCHEMA);
diff --git a/parquet-cli/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/cli/BaseCommand.java b/parquet-cli/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/cli/BaseCommand.java
index 0c8841b05c..7005fcc44f 100644
--- a/parquet-cli/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/cli/BaseCommand.java
+++ b/parquet-cli/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/cli/BaseCommand.java
@@ -285,6 +285,7 @@ public SeekableInput openSeekable(String filename) throws IOException {
 
   @Override
   public void setConf(Configuration conf) {
+    conf.setBoolean(AvroReadSupport.READ_INT96_AS_FIXED, true);
     this.conf = conf;
     HadoopFileSystemURLStreamHandler.setDefaultConf(conf);
   }
diff --git a/parquet-cli/src/test/java/org/apache/parquet/cli/commands/FileTest.java b/parquet-cli/src/test/java/org/apache/parquet/cli/commands/FileTest.java
index 6e031112ff..7b5ea817ea 100644
--- a/parquet-cli/src/test/java/org/apache/parquet/cli/commands/FileTest.java
+++ b/parquet-cli/src/test/java/org/apache/parquet/cli/commands/FileTest.java
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ public abstract class FileTest {
   static final String BINARY_FIELD = "binary_field";
   static final String FIXED_LEN_BYTE_ARRAY_FIELD = "flba_field";
   static final String DATE_FIELD = "date_field";
+  static final String INT96_FIELD = "int96_field";
 
   static final String[] COLORS = {"RED", "BLUE", "YELLOW", "GREEN", "WHITE"};
 
diff --git a/parquet-cli/src/test/java/org/apache/parquet/cli/commands/ParquetFileTest.java b/parquet-cli/src/test/java/org/apache/parquet/cli/commands/ParquetFileTest.java
index fe499ad338..4e4ad0364b 100644
--- a/parquet-cli/src/test/java/org/apache/parquet/cli/commands/ParquetFileTest.java
+++ b/parquet-cli/src/test/java/org/apache/parquet/cli/commands/ParquetFileTest.java
@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ private static MessageType createSchema() {
         .required(PrimitiveTypeName.INT32)
         .as(LogicalTypeAnnotation.dateType())
         .named(DATE_FIELD)
+        .required(PrimitiveTypeName.INT96)
+        .named(INT96_FIELD)
         .named("schema");
   }
 
@@ -109,7 +111,8 @@ private void createTestParquetFile() throws IOException {
             .append(DOUBLE_FIELD, 2.0d + i)
             .append(BINARY_FIELD, Binary.fromString(COLORS[i % COLORS.length]))
             .append(FIXED_LEN_BYTE_ARRAY_FIELD, Binary.fromConstantByteArray(bytes))
-            .append(DATE_FIELD, i));
+            .append(DATE_FIELD, i)
+            .append(INT96_FIELD, Binary.fromConstantByteArray(bytes)));
       }
     }
   }