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Hampshire made his debut for his native Yorkshire in 1961, where he had a twenty-year career with the club.
Hampshire was a surprise choice for the 1969 Test side having made only fourteen centuries in eight seasons.<ref>Wisden 1970 – Test Report</ref> On his debut against the [[West Indian cricket team|West Indies]] at [[Lord's Cricket Ground|Lord's]], he made a dashing 107 and he appeared set for a glittering Test career. He was the first Englishman to score a Test hundred on debut at Lord's.<ref name="Cap"/> Strangely, he was dropped after the next match, and faded away from the Test arena, making just half-a-dozen more Test appearances for England, usually when the wicket was considered hard.
After the ousting of [[Geoff Boycott]] from the Yorkshire [[Captain (cricket)|captaincy]], Hampshire captained the club for two seasons from 1979 to 1980.<ref name="Cap"/> At one point he staged a 'go-slow' at Northampton – which cost Yorkshire a bonus point – as a protest against slow batting by his longtime rival. He left Yorkshire in 1981 during one of the county's then almost perennial bouts of civil war, and during the winter played for a [[Leicestershire County Cricket Club|Leicestershire]] team as a guest in [[Zimbabwe]]. In 1982 he joined Derbyshire where he stayed for three years.<ref name="Cap"/>
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